[Zope] TUX and Zope? + ab results

Andreas Jung Andreas Jung" <andreas@andreas-jung.com
Wed, 2 May 2001 21:18:39 -0400


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Byron" <jason_zope@yahoo.com>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 9:01 PM
Subject: [Zope] TUX and Zope? + ab results


> This may sound silly, but do you think it would be
> feasably to get some more speed out of Zope by 
> combining it with TUX (the linux kernel based web
> server) ?  Maybe build the python interpreter into 
> it ?

Nope, nice idea but this makes no sense. TUX is highly optimized for 
delivering static page and only runs on Linux as long as I know. 
> 
> 1000 requests, 100 at a time
> 
> TUX       2898.55 Requests per second
> AOLserver  603.14 Requests per second
> Apache     502.51 Requests per second
> Zope        60.57 Requests per second


The numbers sound reasonable. About one year ago I made similiar
benchmark detecting that Zope is about 10 times slower when 
delivering static objects.

Andreas