Hello Symfony, hello folks,

Like many here i'm also very impressed about this framework. About 6 months ago i started to write my own (very) simple "mvc-framework" for a bigger project. It consist of two major applications: frontend (shop) and a backend (backoffice). It needed to be build from scratch because there were to many features, which none of the existing (open source) shops/projects offered.

I read about Symfony few weeks ago inside a Typo3 mailinglist and i'm a bit upset that i didn't found it earlier . Since then, i'm trying different things with Symfony to see, if my project could be rewritten to use Symfony and all it's benefits.

Now let my explain what i'd like to know from all you guys out there, who have experience with Symfony in "real world" applications:

I always knew, that my project will run on one dedicated server (4GB ram, 2 x Xeon), so there is sufficient capacity. Beside of that i use eAccelerator for many years now, without problems. A page-request at the "deepest" point in the shop (3 level category, 4 DB requests, fetching 9 items out of 2000, not caching) take about 180 kb of memory. My first steps with Symfony using a simple category query ("Modified Preorder Tree Traversal") ends up using 1200 kb of memory (production enviroment).

Now i'm not concerned about this "first impression" (i don't think i did something wrong), because there is much more "behind", than in my "small" framework. I'd like to know if you have similar results (avarage memory usage), and because of that, what is your experience with "havier" sites usig Symfony?

Thanx in advance,
Michael

[Updated on: Sat, 01 July 2006 11:02]