[ZODB-Dev] BTree fsIndex patch for StandaloneZODB

[Jim Fulton]

Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "NS" == Neil Schemenauer <nas@mems-exchange.org> writes:
> 
>   NS> I've extracted this patch from BTreeFSIndex-branch in the Zope
>   NS> CVS tree.  I think it should apply cleanly to current copy of
>   NS> StandaloneZODB.  We are now using this on our development
>   NS> machines.  For our DB, it dramatically reduces the amount of
>   NS> memory used by the ZEO server (RSS down from 49MB to 10MB).
> 
> This is consistent with our analysis.  We expected to see a roughly 4x
> reduction in memory used.  In the few tests we had done, we didn't see
> such a big difference.  But lots of things can cause the RSS to be
> high.
> 
>   NS> Hopefully this change can get integrated into the main ZODB
>   NS> branch.
> 
> It is in StandaloneZODB 1.0.  I'm not sure when Brian / Jim will want
> it to be integrated into Zope.  Any opinions, guys?

I leave it to you. :)

We should make integration of this and Toby's ZODB cache 
implementation relatively high priorities.

Jim

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