[Zope] Zope sizing and Scalability

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Wed, 07 May 2003 09:51:30 +0100


Andrew Howe wrote:
> I am looking for some information regarding sizing of the Zope database 
> its scalability, how big it can grow without performance issues 
> beginning to impact on it etc.  I have read the documentation in the 
> manual regarding how to set up a number of servers but it does not give 
> any indication as to how big a zope installation can be.

It sounds like you're talking about ZODB.

I have a few servers running heavily loaded 2GB Data.fs'es.

I've heard rumours of 10-20GB Data.fs'es happily in production.

There's also recorded instances of 200GB Data.fs'es, but I'm more sceptical 
about them ;-)

cheers,

Chris