Re: ZEO cache best practices, was Re: [ZODB-Dev] ZEO 3.2 (Zope 2.7) -3.6 (Zope 2.9) upgrading: Much slower startup due to cache file creation

2006-04-18 Thread Tim Peters
[Tim Peters] That's an example: the post-MVCC ZEO cache is a single file, and there are no cache flips; flips are unique to the pre-MVCC two-file ZEO cache design. [Paul Winkler] Interesting. Is there a recommended way now to judge whether your ZEO cache is big enough? Was there a

Re: ZEO cache best practices, was Re: [ZODB-Dev] ZEO 3.2 (Zope 2.7) -3.6 (Zope 2.9) upgrading: Much slower startup due to cache file creation

2006-04-18 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 02:12:15PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote: [Paul Winkler] Interesting. Is there a recommended way now to judge whether your ZEO cache is big enough? Was there a recommended way before? If so, it probably sucked too ;-) Heh. Well, I had a site that under some usage

Re: ZEO cache best practices, was Re: [ZODB-Dev] ZEO 3.2 (Zope 2.7) -3.6 (Zope 2.9) upgrading: Much slower startup due to cache file creation

2006-04-18 Thread Tim Peters
[Paul Winkler] Heh. Well, I had a site that under some usage patterns would occasionally slow to a crawl with cache flips every few minutes. That was with the old default 20 MB cache size. I think I left it at 500 MB or so and that site's been fine since. But the performance demands were