Hi Larry, We are using Zope/ZEO 2.7.x on a small cluster of AMD Opteron machines to host an online learning environment for our medical students (around 1100 in all), providing on-the-fly timetables, study and lecture notes, module booking, downloadable resources, discussion forums, etc..
Machines are Sun V20z dual 248 Opterons, each with 4Gb of RAM, dual gigabit ethernet and 10krpm scsi disks. This is all hosted on a private gigabit network, with a local LDAP authentication server. Access to the sites is via a load-balancing gateway running 'Pound'. The Opteron nodes (3 of the above spec, at the moment) are running SuSE 9.1/Pro/X86_64, with the SuSE provided python64 binaries and libs. All the extensions and py modules we use are compiled against /lib64. The Opteron nodes host the sites, using Zope 2.7.2, connecting to a bigger, but slower Sun fileserver, which serves the data fs via ZEO. Performance is blistering; but we could easily improve it with squid. We've benchmarked the Opterons against dual Xeon systems (2.8, 3.0) and they are *way* faster. If you want any more details, just let me know... >Anyone out there successfully deploying and running Zope/CMF on 64-bit >Linux? I'm looking at deploying AMD Opteron server for hosting large >Zope site and wanted to take advantage of the speed and addressing >capabilities if I could. Specifically I'd like to use RedHat Fedora >Core 3 to run ZODB server and ZEO Clients. Any information would be >greatly appreciated. > >Thanks in advance, >Larry Bates John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==========================================- School of Medical Education Development Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing University of Newcastle Phone : 0191 246 4549 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )