[Zope] solaris and zope

[Paul Horbal]

Hi folks...

We've been moving into a new building this week and fell off the internet, I
wasn't able to respond earlier.

I've got two Sun Netra X1s (512 MB each) running Solaris 2.8 and Zope 2.4.0
and they seem to run reasonably fast.  I don't have Redhat to compare with
unfortunately.

The setup I've got is Zope/Zserver on one machine but served to the world by
Apache (using named VirtualHost/ProxyPass) on the other.  It's probably not
going to best khttpd for speed, but it's certainly more than enough for our
needs.

Is there any way we could benchmark these systems and compare?  The terms
"running slow" and "flys" don't really give you a frame of reference.  The
only thing I can compare with is that our site was originally static pages
served by Apache with a tiny smidgen of browser-detect PHP code.  These
pages were lightning quick to load.  Zope seems to serve them up only a tiny
fraction of a second slower (for instance, I can see the image block a
split-second before it fills in - whereas before the page would load in a
"flash").  However, this is an unfair comparison as Zope is doing the
browser detection and at least two SSI (header/footer).

If it really is an issue, let's get to the bottom of it... =)

Paul.