[Wylug-help] Appalling Zope/Plone performance: what have I missed?

[Dave Fisher]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 02:37:01PM +0100, Jason Lander wrote:
> 
> Dave,
> 
> > Unfortunately, any attempt to access my instances of either Zope or
> > Plone from the outside world timeout.
> 
> Is there anything in the Z2.log (Zope web server requests) or
> the associated event.log?

No record at all of requests from external (internet) clients, which I
suppose is a clue about the possibility of a blockage, 'upstream'.

> I'm afraid I don't know where the Debian package hides these.

/var/lib/zope2.7/instance/<instance-name>/log/

> I think Zope is multithreaded, so the memory usage is misleading

I guessed it was something like that, but the numbers were still a bit
scary.

> I agree about the Plone documentation. I've found the source code more
> informative than most of the docs, with the notable exceptions of.

That's a bit of an indictment of an application which is universally
promoted for its 'usability'.  

Clearly, if the claim was even slightly justified, there would be no
need for so much documentation, still less reading the source code
(there's a lot of that too!).

> * Andy McKays book at http://docs.neuroinf.de/PloneBook
> * Upfront systems course at http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za/courses/plone/
Thanks for those tips.

> The Zope API and ZPT docs from http://zope.org are also very helpful.

... and I thought the whole point of Plone was supposed to be that you
didn't have to wrangle with Zope's byzantine interfaces!

Dave