[Zope] Integrating Zope with Excel.

[Chris Withers]

Paul Winkler wrote:
> I was using either urllib or urllib2 (don't remember).
> At that time (python 2.1), socket.setdefaulttimeout() did not
> exist so any request to a socket could potentially spin forever.

Cool, I didn't know python had finally grown one of those. Yay!

> My theory is that, each time a request came for my 
> external method, the current worker thread was then
> waiting forever for a reply from the firewalled socket.
> So, inevitably, sooner or later all threads were doing this
> and the server was effectively hung.

That makes sense...

> But, I haven't been able to reproduce this behavior today with Zope 2.7.2,
> even with socket.setdefaulttimeout(None).
> I've currently got 16 pending requests for the never-finishing
> external method, and I can still browse zope just fine.

...but this doesn't. Have you upped the number to work threads to > 16?

cheers,

Chris

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