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Date:      Tue, 21 Aug 2001 16:22:53 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Giorgos Verigakis <verigak@algol.vtrip-ltd.com>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Zope's performance issues
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.30.0108211617510.24969-100000@algol.vtrip-ltd.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0108210906380.16880-100000@niwun.pair.com>

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On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Mike Silbersack wrote:

>
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Giorgos Verigakis wrote:
>
> > Hello, I'm using Zope application server (www.zope.org) on FreeBSD
> > and I'm experiencing some serious performance issues.
> > Since I hadn't noticed any problems at the past with Linux, I did
> > some  benchmarks to investigate it a little.
> >
> > I've written a small program that connects to Zope and tries to
> > retrieve a non-existant URL (source code appended). While Linux
> > performed almost linearly depending on the number of hits/sec,
> > FreeBSD (and OpenBSD) performed exponential. I allready sent
> > a mail to the zope-list but I did not get much info.
> > Since Zope is a threaded application I was wondering maybe it
> > was related with the thread implementation (the scheduling maybe?)
>
> I suspect that the reload time spiking is due to our initial sequence
> number generation scheme, which is currently shared with OpenBSD.  This
> will be changing RSN, which will likely change how your benchmarks look.
> (They should look better after the change.)

I don't understand. How is it related with the initial sequence number?


>
> I'm curious about the reload time, though.  Is it really in seconds?  What
> is it measuring?

Yes it's in seconds. What I wanted to measure was the time a page needs to
be loaded, because the results I was getting were unexpectable.


>
> Oops, I just noticed the source below... I'll read it and try out the test
> to see if my above theory is correct later today.
>
> Mike "Silby" Silbersack
>
>


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