Okay. I think I figured it out. It seems that images and large objects are the main culprit. We have very few images, mainly just icons for the content types and tabs.
I discovered this by using lynx and with IE disabling images. So the new question is: how do I speed up image downloading? I'm guessing this has something to do with the ZODB? > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:zope3- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philipp von > Weitershausen > Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 5:46 AM > To: zope3-users@zope.org > Subject: [Zope3-Users] Re: Performance > > David Johnson wrote: > > Good morning. I've built and application for Zope 3 and it seems to run > > fairly slow (the logs show 2-5 seconds for a single page load). The > > graphic usage is relatively low (I've tested the same html file in PHP > > and the speed is 0.10-0.20 seconds). > > I'm not sure what "graphics usage" and "testing the same html file in > PHP" are supposed to mean. I also don't understand what such a test is > supposed to show. > > There can be numerous bottlenecks in a Zope application. Rendering Page > Templates (which admittedly are not the fastest templating mechanism in > the world) is only one. Having unit test and integration tests for your > components can make it a lot easier to track down such bottlenecks. The > test runner also has a profiling option (--profile) that I might help > you show where you spend most of your time. It's a good idea to combine > this with --repeat=N so that the tests are run several times in a row > and will outweigh the overhead spent in the test runner in the statistics. > > Philipp > > _______________________________________________ > Zope3-users mailing list > Zope3-users@zope.org > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users