[Zope] Improving CMS Performance: Help Needed

Scott Burton mrzope@hotmail.com
Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:34:15 +0000


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<P>Here are a few things to consider.... #1 Where are your images being served from? If from Zope, you should cache all of the images in the website. #2 What particular areas of the site or actions are slow? If it takes a long time to do one particular thing, then see if you could optimize a script. Some simple things are often the cause of slow performance in a script. #3 What is the Zope process taking up in memory and CPU usage? #4 Run profiling see: <A href="http://www.zope.org/Members/richard/CallProfiler/news">http://www.zope.org/Members/richard/CallProfiler/news</A>. And <A href="http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/HowTos/DEBUG-LOG">http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/HowTos/DEBUG-LOG</A>&nbsp;This will show you where and what is slow in your app.</P>
<P><BR>You should also consider caching the header and footer or commonly used html-parts of your pages that aren't dynamic. You did set it up that way right?</P>
<P>Also... Are you using the ZODB to store your content or RDBMS? If you are using something like MySQL you might have a problem with your sql or database setup.</P>
<P>All-in-all there are many things that can cause poor performance, not just in Zope but in any dynamic webserver. I have seen Zope endure some serious traffic running dynamic sites on a a little box you wouldn't even consider using as a desktop machine with no performance problems.</P>
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<DIV></DIV>&gt;From: Klaus Herrmann <KLAUS.HERRMANN@GOELZ.COM>
<DIV></DIV>&gt;To: zope@zope.org 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Subject: [Zope] Improving CMS Performance: Help Needed 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Date: 25 Jul 2002 16:02:47 +0300 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Hi Folks! 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;We have developed a nice CMS ontop of Zope, that dynamically renders 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;pages (with DTML and a python Product) out of special Components (e.g. 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;text blocks and headlines). The only bad thing is: The Performance 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;really sucks. 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;I experienced that Zope is able to serve ~50 REQUESTs per Second on a 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;small static page (where apache does 1500-2200), but under heavy DTML- 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;and Python usage, Zope will only be able to serve ~ 0,5 - 5 pages per 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;second (depending on how big the page is and how complicated its python 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;logic). 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Well, i am aware of the fact that cache managers are able to 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;dramatically improve performance, but in most cases, our content and 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;pages are just too dynamic for the application to work w/ enabled cache 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;(RAM or HTTP or ProxyPass). 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Does anyone know some hints how to get more performance out of zope? Any 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;common Python / DTML routines that cost way too much time? Any 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;experiances in improving Zope's speed? 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;System is Zope-2.5.1 on FreeBSD-4-Stable and Python 2.1.3. 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Hardware: Tested on Xeon / 1,26GHz / 512MB RAM and Athlon / 850MHz / 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;256MB RAM 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Thanks in advance! 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; 
<DIV></DIV>&gt;regards, 
<DIV></DIV>&gt; Klaus 
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