[Zope] very slow zcatalog

[Max M]

Shawn Day wrote:

> Hi there,
>  
> I am a relative newbie to zope and have a question about the zcatalog. I
> have a directory filled with nearly 6000 Plone folders. Each of these
> folders holds information about a business in my town and they are contained
> in a zcatalog. The problem is that a search generally takes about 50
> seconds.


Are you shure that the problem is your query? I did a few searches and 
they came in at around 10 seconds.

Perhaps you are generating too long lists?


regards Max M