RE: [Zope-dev] Serving big files thru zope?

you could play with http://puggy.symonds.net/~srp/stuff/mod_auth_remote/ and have apache auth off zope. cheers, -kapil On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 11:06, Sandor Palfy wrote: > > I am also wondering about the security aspects of bypassing Zope to > > serve files - acess to some of the files we need t

Re: [Zope-dev] Serving big files thru zope?

On Monday, March 1, 2004, at 02:43 PM, Dieter Maurer wrote: In order to reduce memory consumption and decouple Zope from ZServer (and the response delivery), a large file is spooled via a temporary. This means, that the file content is read from ZODB, stored in a temporary file and then delivered

Re: [Zope-dev] Serving big files thru zope?

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 07:06:31PM +0100, Dieter Maurer wrote: (snip) > I interpreted these observations in the following way: > > * time is dominated by the disc access > > * time is largely independent of the object size (if > the object is in the OS disc cache) > > * ZEO overhea

Re: [Zope-dev] Serving big files thru zope?

Jeremy Hylton wrote at 2004-3-1 14:01 -0500: > ... >It really would be good to get to the bottom of the bad ZEO performance >for loading an object the first time. I won't have time to do it until >after the ZODB 3.3 release, but I think it's a worthwhile effort to >understand what ZEO is doing. I

Re: [Zope-dev] Serving big files thru zope?

Dario Lopez-Kästen wrote at 2004-3-1 08:24 +0100: > ... >Is the current state of ZServer such that it is suboptimal for serving >large files? if so, > >a) what is the problem with the current implementation? In order to reduce memory consumption and decouple Zope from ZServer (and the response de

Re: [Zope-dev] Serving big files thru zope?

I think we should work on making Zope perform better when large files are downloaded at the PyCon sprint in March, as you suggested Paul, FWIW. On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 13:41, Paul Winkler wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 01:03:24PM +0100, Dario Lopez-K?sten wrote: > > I am also wondering about the s

Re: [Zope-dev] Serving big files thru zope?

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 13:41, Paul Winkler wrote: > However, ZEO is a whole other story. > The time to load a 40 MB file from ZEO and serve it, > is about another 10x slower than plain Zope without ZEO. > This is painfully bad and readily apparent to users. > But if your ZEO cache is large enough t

Re: [Zope-dev] Serving big files thru zope?

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 01:03:24PM +0100, Dario Lopez-K?sten wrote: > I am also wondering about the security aspects of bypassing Zope to > serve files - acess to some of the files we need to serve is restricted > to particular users with particular permissions, and I cannot clearly > see how th

RE: [Zope-dev] Serving big files thru zope?

> I am also wondering about the security aspects of bypassing Zope to > serve files - acess to some of the files we need to serve is > restricted > to particular users with particular permissions, and I cannot clearly > see how this would be possible to accomplish without Zope's security > mac

Re: [Zope-dev] Serving big files thru zope?

Stefan H. Holek wrote: Dario, The best solution for me always has been to serve such files statically from Apache, bypassing ZServer altogether. In fact I have added support for static URLs to my version of ExtFile . ZEO clusters will need a comon disk sha

Re: [Zope-dev] Serving big files thru zope?

Dario, The best solution for me always has been to serve such files statically from Apache, bypassing ZServer altogether. In fact I have added support for static URLs to my version of ExtFile . ZEO clusters will need a comon disk share (SAMBA, NFS) for this

[Zope-dev] Serving big files thru zope?

Hello, I need to serve big files from zope - PDF, movies, large PS-files, Students lab-results, etc. We recently moved from LocalFS to Dirstorage to manage ZEO-ability in a clustered enviromnet). Quite a while ago, I remember having read somewhere on the lists that there is a pacth/fix for Zo