toman writes:
I'm trying to put together a collaboration app that allows users to share large datasets. When I ftp the data, which has numerous folders and large (~100Meg) and small files in them, to a Zope 2.6.0 server running on Windows XP, it will transfer many but not all of the datasets. Then if I try to make another object, say a folder, through ftp or the management screens, the server hangs. Maybe, your FTP client forgets to close connections.
After some time, Zope will have no more file descriptors to accept further requests.
The same test on a Linux box running Mandrake 8.something doesn't show this problem at all. With the same FTP client?
Ideas? I would guess that it's a threading problem, mostly because in my experience threads suck on Windows, but I don't know enough about the Zope internals to prove it. I have not yet heard of (modern) Windows threading problems. They seem to be better supported than on Unix.
Dieter