On Thursday 04 August 2005 23:34, Tres Seaver wrote: > > Shrug, this is a risky change. If something goes wrong there, a lot of > > code will be screwed. I agree it is fairly trivial to fix, but I would > > prefer it to be done right. I plan to address the entire > > HTTPRequest/Publication/... issue with the Twisted integration work. > > Can you point me to the discussion of the tradeoffs involved in moving > to Twisted?
I have not written the proposal yet, but you can play around with the branch if you like. > I have a (perhaps unfounded) sense that its HTTP server > implementation has serious scaling problems, even compared to ZServer. Not the new web2 server. Itamar and I did some very quick (non-scientific) profiling and web2 was just slightly slower than zserver. It was just a very small fraction in comparison to the time the publisher requires. > Perhaps that has changed over time, but at the time I acquired the > opinion, it seemed to be the sense of the Twisted community that HTTP > wasn't "shiny" enough to get lots of attention, in the face of "sexy" > work to add new features. web2 is a reimplementation from James Knight that concentrates more on the HTTP standard itself and provides a solid WSGI interface. > Does anybody have experience running Twisted at "enterprise" scale? By > that, I mean: > > - pagers go off when it falls over; > > - you know your "committed information rate", and watch your bursts > carefully; > > etc. I know that the feature set which Twisted makes available is > interesting, but I would be *strongly* opposed trading away stability > and scale for HTTP in exchange for yet-another-protocol-which-noone- > actually uses (likely an unfair characterization, I admit). Jim already convinced me to leave zserver has an alternative. Not quiet sure how I will do this, but I hope it will be as easy as switching a few options in zope.conf. > I am *not* opposed to the idea of making Zope more friendly to running > behind Twisted; I *do* think we need to consider carefully whether we > will be wise to make Twisted the *only* way to run Zope3 for HTTP. It will not be the only way, but the default one. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com