[Zope3-dev] Start-up time of Zope3 under MacOSX

[Guido van Rossum]

> Zope3 (fresh checkout) takes about 20-25 seconds on my Powerbook (1GHz).
> A fresh Zope 2.6.1 checkout starts in less than 5 seconds. Are there any
> known reasons for this slow startup of Z3 especially because the Z3 source
> tree is much smaller.?

I experienced a similar difference between Zope3 starting on MacOSX
(30 secs) vs. Linux (3 secs).  I've been told one problem is that
Apple's filesystem is very slow on certain directory operations
(stat?).  To find out more, use a syscall trace tool to see what it's
doing all that time.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)