[Zope] Threading, dtml and performance?!

Chris McDonough chrism@zope.com
Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:21:45 -0400


This "hogging" behavior doesn't show up on a Linux 2.4.2 kernel, Zope
2.3.3 system we have here.  I can browse the site normally while the
DTML method runs.

I don't have a Solaris machine to test this on; can anyone else
confirm the behavior on Solaris?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Oliver Erlewein" <oerlewein@gmx.de>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 10:20 AM
Subject: [Zope] Threading, dtml and performance?!


> Hi everybody
>
> Try this from the root Folder:
>
> <dtml-var standard_html_header>
> <dtml-in
>
"[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
1,1,1]">
>  <dtml-in "ZopeFind(this(), '', '', '', '', '' , '', '', '', 1)"
> sort=bobobase_modification_time reverse>
>   <dtml-var bobobase_modification_time>, <dtml-var id><br>
>  </dtml-in>
> </dtml-in>
> <dtml-var standard_html_footer>
>
> This should take a while to show. If not try more 1,1,1,....! If I
call
> another page on a second browser window on the same Zope-site the
response is
> generated after the above script is completed. This would mean that
the script
> hoggs all threads.
>
> If this behaviour is "normal" the I wonder how big sites run with an
> adequate performance?! Of course ZEO would probably be a solution
but that would be
> very expensive in hardware and administration. I can't believe that
Zope is
> so "singletheaded". Therefore I'm interested if somebody can verify
this. I
> run under Solaris but I suppose that the behaviour should be similar
on all
> platforms (Zope 2.4.x). Please don't run this on a production
system!
>
> Thanx Oliver
>
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