[Seaside] REST and Seaside

[Dmitry Dorofeev]

Hi,

It is very important concern. Would you provide more information about
traffic ? Clicks per hour ? Mb per hour ? per day/month ? 

My idea is always the same: use cache! I.e. 


Internet <---> Apache <----> [magic cache module] <---> Squeak/Seaside

So if possible make Apache show page from disk, not from Seaside.
It is just idea and i know that session state is something to care about.
But I believe that it is possible. What about module for Apache ?

-Dima.

Nevin Pratt wrote:
> As many of you know, I've been running Bountiful Baby on Seaside for 
> over a year now.  Well, the site has increased in popularity to the 
> point where the traffic appears to be a serious problem for Seaside.  I 
> have regularly been seeing memory footprints of the Seaside image up 
> around a gigabyte.  The latest image save was over half a gig.  And 
> occasionally I see image freezes over extended periods of time (half a 
> minute or so), and it is probably related to a huge image footprint.
> 
> During periods of inactivity, the image will (eventually) shrink to as 
> little as about 50 megs, so I think Seaside is doing it's thing OK.  One 
> way to test this is to grab the image and bring it over to a test 
> system, where there is little to no activity.  It's just that on the 
> production system, I occasionally I get bombarded with web requests, and 
> so the image grows to handle it.
> 
> Because of this, I've been seriously re-thinking the viability of 
> Seaside for Bountiful Baby.  It is absolutely great technology, but 
> alas, Seaside is memory hungry.  It's not a problem for a small site, 
> but as the site grows in popularity, it becomes more and more of a problem.
> 
> So, I guess I'm looking for input from you guys.  If I replaced Seaside 
> with something else, I'd probably just use standard web REST-style 
> technology, with all of its warts and all.  I'm not sure what else is 
> possible if you are trying to support a lot of traffic.
> 
> What would you do?  Looking for advice from anybody who cares to give it.
> 
> I'd also like to stay with Squeak-- so what frameworks would you suggest?
> 
> Thanks all!
> 
> Nevin
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