[Zope] Putting Zope into a tailspin can kill a whole Linux Server

[Toens Bueker]

BZ <bz@bwanazulia.com> wrote:
>
> Once in awhile (every six months or so) I send Zope a request that it just
> cannot handle. At that point (after waiting for a good five minutes) I cancel
> the request by stopping the browser. This has twice resulted in Zope spinning
> out of control (taking up more and more CPU) untill it kills the entire
> server box.

[...]

> - Zope 2.3.2, on RH Linux 7.0 384 MB Ram, 650 MHz Pentium: I tried packing
> the database, stopped it and tried repacking it.

As long as you dont supply any information about your kernel-version and your
glibc-version all that remains for us to help you is the crystal ball.

Mine is broken at the moment ...

by
Töns
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