[EuroPython] why is the website so slow?

[Jacob Hallén]

On tisdag 6 april 2004 21.24, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm curious; do we have any clue why the website is so slow? I don't
> think the usage pattern of our little plone site currently is such that
> it should create such slowness. No matter how good or bad the
> scalability of our particular code is... Are other apps running on this
> machine making it this bad?
>
> Who do we talk to that can find out more about this slowness?

I agree that the site is painfully slow. Running top shows that there are 2-3 
python2.1 processes belonging to us that eat approx 100% of the CPU cycles on 
the machine, keeping it at load averages of over 3 almost all of the time.

Something is badly wrong in our setup.

Jacob