[Zope] Reducing Zope Memory Usage

Toby Dickenson tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com
Fri, 7 Feb 2003 14:05:15 +0000


On Friday 07 February 2003 9:18 am, Bo M. Maryniuck wrote:
> On Friday 07 February 2003 03:48, george donnelly wrote:
> > 3. restart zope regularly (occasional brief (60-120 seconds) downtime as
> > Zope and ZEO restart)
>
> You sure you want to do this on production server for serious
> critical-missing web-applications?

You can use *two* zopes and a load balancing front end proxy like squid or 
pound. This adds a fixed 15M (roughly) memory overhead for the second zope, 
plus 5M for squid (which you really should be using anyway if 60 seconds 
downtime bothers you). Just dont restart both zopes at the same time!


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Toby Dickenson
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