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

[Andreas Jung]

--On Montag, 31. M=E4rz 2003 9:48 Uhr -0500 Guido van Rossum=20
<guido@python.org> wrote:

>> 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?).

I know that the Mac filesystem sucks a bit. But appearently Zope 2
starts much faster on the same machine. ...but I am trying to track this
down.

-aj