[Zope-CMF] ZODB Ballooning

[Jens Vagelpohl]

how are these event log entries saved? what data structure are they in? 
i have a suspicion that you end up re-saving the whole log/log object 
for every new entry.

jens


On Thursday, Dec 12, 2002, at 00:15 US/Eastern, Jeff Ross wrote:

> Hi. I'm running Zope 2.6 and CMF 1.3 and my ZODB is ballooning to 2.0 
> GB
> every day. I'm trying to figure out what the culprit is.
>
> I have a custom event log that records user logins, logouts, and
> modifications of content. If I turn this off the problem goes away, 
> but I'm
> trying to pinpoint it. Here is some code from my EventLogData class:
>
> self.timestamp = DateTime()
>
> Each entry in the event log gets a timestamp saved with the object. 
> I'm just
> wondering is there a lot of crap that gets saved to the database if I 
> save a
> DateTime object? Could this be the culprit? All the other stuff I'm 
> saving
> is strings, so I think this might be it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff Ross