March 2004 - Zope - Zope lists

Zope on Linux 2.6
by Dennis Allison 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Anyone running it in production?

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(Solution) RE: [Zope] Strange MailHost/smtplib problem ...
by Jean-Francois.Doyon＠CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Heh, I found the problem: The MailHost instance should not be called "MailHost" ! As soon as I renamed it, everything started working OK ... I'll file this as a bug if it's not done already ... J.F. -----Original Message----- From: zope-bounces(a)zope.org [mailto:zope-bounces@zope.org]On Behalf Of Jean-Francois.Doyon(a)CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 11:17 AM To: zope(a)zope.org Subject: [Zope] Strange MailHost/smtplib problem ... Hello, I'm using 2.7/2.3.3 on RH7.3 ... I have a previous version of my site on 2.6.4/2.1.3 on the same server running fine as well. The MailHost on the old one works fine, using a DTML document and the <dtml-sendmail> tag ... On 2.7 however, I keep getting a "111, Connection Refused", with the EXACT same setup. Using tcpdump I've tracked it down to the fact that under 2.7, even though I have a valid SMTP server and port specified, smtplib seems to insist on using localhost for the outgoing connection, and for the SMTP server (i.e. it tries to connect local to local, which isn't at all what I want or specified). Under 2.6.4, it works fine, the SMTP packet traffic shows up on the expected interfaces and the mail gets out fine. A quick look at the MailHost.py code doesn't bring up any obvious problems ... Anybody else run into anything like this ? Jean-François Doyon Internet Service Development and Systems Support / Développement des services et soutien de systèmes Internet GeoAccess Division / Division GéoAccès Canada Center for Remote Sensing / Centre canadien de télédétection Natural Resources Canada / Ressources naturelles Canada http://atlas.gc.ca Phone: (613) 992-4902 Fax: (613) 947-2410 _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )

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RE: [Zope] strange performance problem
by Jean-Francois.Doyon＠CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Dennis, This is in direct correlation with the check interval suggestion I made. In your search, you will find that on SMTP systems, tweaking the check interval can help things, precisely because of the GIL. I set it to zero because I had the spare CPU power, and trying to fully understand/benchmark python's behavior on SMTP seemed like too much work :P J.F. -----Original Message----- From: zope-bounces(a)zope.org [mailto:zope-bounces@zope.org]On Behalf Of Dennis Allison Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 10:39 AM To: Chris Withers Cc: zope(a)zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] strange performance problem Thanks. I'll review the archives. -d On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Chris Withers wrote: > Dennis Allison wrote: > > > While it's possible, the scheduler is pretty good at maintaining processor > > affinity without intervention. I have *never* seen anything which would > > suggest that is a problem. This is happening on an unloaded system when > > processor affinity issues should be hard to trigger. > > Okay, but I have lots of memories of reading about problems with Python's Global > Interpretter Lock and lightly loaded multi-processor machines. > > The mailinglist archives may give more of a clue. > > One thing you could try is to get a ZEO storage server up and running, then run > up 4 or 5 ZEO clients, but each with only one thread. Then you just need to > figure out how to round-robin them so they all appear through one port... > > cheers, > > Chris > > -- > Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting > - http://www.simplistix.co.uk > _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )

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Generate PDF with Zope
by Pascal Francq 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Hi, I want to generate PDF document from within Zope. What is the easiest way to do it? I know there is a python package (reportlab) which provides functions to create PDF documents, but I am not sure it is the right solution for Zope. -- Prof. Pascal Francq Université Libre de Bruxelles CAD/CAM Department Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 165/14 B-1050 Brussels BELGIUM Tel. +32-2-650 47 65 Fax +32-2-650 47 24

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Running Zope with less memory usage
by Peter Bengtsson 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

I'm running one of my zope servers (2.7.0b3) on a very slow celeron 500Mhz with <200Mb RAM. It also runs Postgresql, apache and Squid, but Zope takes by far the most amount of memory. What configurations can I make to limit Zope to use less memory? -- Peter Bengtsson, http://www.peterbe.com

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Threaded Discussion
by Israel Carr 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Any recommendations on simple threaded discussions in zope? Thanks, Israel

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strange performance problem
by Dennis Allison 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

This has the characteristics of a network problem, but it may be somewhere else. Users report that the system just seems to stop responding for a few seconds, then recovers. Of course, I've not been able to reproduce the problem nor isolate a command sequence that triggers it, but I am convinced that it's real. This, BTW, happens on a lightly loaded machine with no apparent resource problems. Any thoughts, pointers, or techniques to isolate the problem would be appreciated. Oh, yes, the environment.. Dual Athlon Barton Stepping CPUs AMD2600, Tyan Tiger Motherboard, 4GB memory, 4x120 3Ware RAID 10, ethernet feed. RH7.3 OS, Python 2.3.1, Zope 2.6.2b3. Any help appreciate. -dra

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Zope Version
by John Poltorak 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Can someone running Zope 2.7.0 post what is shown under the control panel? I've just managed to get it running but it is shown as an unreleased version:- The Control Panel provides access to system information and management functions such as database and product management. Zope Version (unreleased version, python 2.3.3, os2emx) Python Version 2.3.3 (#0, Dec 21 2003, 23:43:28) [EMX GCC 2.8.1] System Platform os2emx SOFTWARE_HOME /usr/local/python/Lib/python ZOPE_HOME /usr/local/python INSTANCE_HOME /zope CLIENT_HOME /zope/var Network Services ZServer.HTTPServer.zhttp_server (Port: 8080) ZServer.FTPServer.FTPServer (Port: 8021) Process Id 7808 (3) Running For 12 hours 19 min 3 sec It appears to have been installed in the wrong place, at least I wouldn't have expected it to get installed under /usr/local/python. Also, there is no Restart button next to the Shutdown button. Is this normal? -- John

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How to limit types of classes added to a Folder
by Russell Fine 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

I'm building a class (Site) that contains a Folder (Called screenshots) in which I will be storing instances of a class I've built called ScreenShot. The problem is that I can't figure out how to make the Folder interface in the ZMI limit the instance types to ScreenShot. In the Site class __init__ method, I have : OFS.Folder.manage_addFolder(self, 'screenshots', 'Screen Shots') self.screenshots.meta_types=('ScreenShot') However, this isn't working. I looked into the Folder class, and discovered that it's base class ObjectManager has a class property (not instance) called meta-types that is a tuple. do I need to sub-class Folder and set meta_types at the class level ? Russell Fine

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Programmatically deleting objects
by Horak, Karl 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

I am attempting to let users delete their own documents from a treeview, if they wish. For this I call manage_delObjects with a list of the item to be deleted. I find that manage_delObjects I get (in my current version) an endless loop of Sending request to server... Transferring data from server.... My DTML method, based on the ZMI method for deleting checked items in a tree, looks like this: <form action="." name="objectItems" method="post"> <table width="50%"> <tr> <dtml-tree branches="publicObjects" skip_unauthorized="1" sort="title_or_id"> <td> <dtml-if expr="meta_type == 'Folder'"><B></dtml-if> <IMG SRC="<dtml-var icon>"> <dtml-var title_or_id> <dtml-if expr="meta_type == 'Folder'"></B></dtml-if> </td> <dtml-if expr="meta_type != 'Folder'"> <td width="16%"><input type="checkbox" name="ids:list" value="<dtml-var id>" /></td> </dtml-if> </dtml-tree> </tr> </table> <input class="form-element" type="submit" name="manage_delObjects:method" value="Delete" /> </form> <dtml-var standard_html_footer> What is causing the spinning Zope when this is submitted? Debugging suggestions would be appreciated because <dtml-var REQUEST> is showing everything as it should. Karl

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