Thank you for your response. How does one determine if they have a "reasonably-sized" ZEO cache? In our case we have about 260,000 objects in the database with an ideal cache size of 10,000 objects. I have no idea what our hit/miss ratio is or how to find that out. Any assistance would be great!
Thanks again, -Brian Brinegar ECN Purdue University On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > We have diskless ZEO clients (Netboot). There is really no reason for our > > ZEO clients to write their caches to the disk (RAM Disk). Can we turn this > > off? To free up RAM for the other caches? > > That's a new use scenario for me. You can't turn the ZEO cache off. > > But I think you misunderstand the purpose of the ZEO cache. If you > don't have a reasonably-sized ZEO cache, you lose big because you have > to go to the server for *every* request. The ZEO cache caches a > different kind of data than the other caches, and it caches this data > *only* to disk, so it's not the case that it's wasting RAM disk space > by writing cached data to disk that's also in memory. > > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) > _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )