[Zope-CMF] Performance questions.

seb bacon seb@jamkit.com
Thu, 25 Jul 2002 18:02:41 +0100


Tres Seaver wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 06:06, Romain Slootmaekers wrote:
> 
> 
>>Yo, we are planning to
>>set up a CMF site with >30000 members.
>>Has anyone done this before, and what are the (performance/hardware) 
>>issues one has to deal with?

> For the user folder, *don't* use Zope's stock version;  try instead one
> of the add-ons such as LDAPUserFolder (auth against an external LDAP
> server) or exUserFolder (custmizable suth, e.g. using SQL methods).

Tres, do you see any problems with using a BTree-based UserFolder?  I've 
been wondering for a while why the stock user folder *isn't* a BTree 
folder.  AFAICT it would provide a significant scaling benefit at no cost.

seb