[Seaside] Re: REST and Seaside

[stephane ducasse]

Hi nevin

> Typical image yo-yo size used to range from a low of about 50 
> megabytes (during low session activity) to a high of around 250 
> megabytes (during high session activity), and it would yo-yo up and 
> down all the time as the site was hit.  I was used to seeing this, as 
> it *always* yo-yo'd up and down like this, even from the beginning of 
> the creation of the site.  This was normal (and expected) activity.
>
> Then I saw the yo-yo high of 250 MB start climbing-- 300 MB, then 350 
> MB or so after a couple of months, then 500 MB, etc.  Now, after 
> several months more of this, I'm seeing it yo-yo up to a gig or so.
>
> And at any time, as I mentioned above, and regardless of the image 
> size, if I "Clear Caches" (from the Seaside Admin page) the image size 
> suddenly drops to about 25 megabytes.
>
> So, it's like I've said-- it looks like it is all the state info that 
> Seaside hangs on to, combined with a session timeout of 6000 seconds, 
> combined with raw traffic volume, all combining to create the current 
> problem.

I like that this means that seaside will improve on this side :)

Stef