check out that blazing 4-5 requests/sec

(this is a baseline on the homepage pre-caching/optimization)

JATO:~ whit$ ab -n 10000 -c 5 http://dev.openplans.org/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.41-dev <$Revision: 1.121.2.12 $> apache-2.0
Copyright (c) 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright (c) 1998-2002 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking dev.openplans.org (be patient)
Completed 1000 requests
Completed 2000 requests
Completed 3000 requests
Completed 4000 requests
Completed 5000 requests
Completed 6000 requests
Completed 7000 requests
Completed 8000 requests
Completed 9000 requests
Finished 10000 requests


Server Software:        Zope/(Zope
Server Hostname:        dev.openplans.org
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        14358 bytes

Concurrency Level:      5
Time taken for tests:   2374.134576 seconds
Complete requests:      10000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      146400240 bytes
HTML transferred:       143609124 bytes
Requests per second:    4.21 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       1187.067 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       237.413 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          60.22 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:       92  125 200.3    104    3090
Processing:   595 1060 239.3   1039    3992
Waiting:      298  669 227.3    656    3585
Total:        696 1185 310.6   1149    4518

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%   1149
  66%   1239
  75%   1287
  80%   1316
  90%   1402
  95%   1585
  98%   1907
  99%   2178
 100%   4518 (longest request)