-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Duterme [mailto:thomas@madeforchina.com] Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 8:12 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Zope stability
Hello Everyone,
We are using Zope for one of our sites but Zope died as of yesterday. (refer to Chas' posts)
This was totally out of the blue and is quite shocking. (Zope is still down after 24 hours)
Just an aside, we do have excellent paid support. It is not unreasonably expensive and you get to talk directly to us and get a prompt report of our analysis of your problem.
The question I'd like to raise to the entire list regards Zope's stability. We are running Zope integrated with Apache off FreeBSD3.2 . As far as I know, this is not such an exotic setup (probably
not exotic at all...
rather common?). As Chas explained previously, Zope just suddenly died. Teodore also had the same error occur and solved it by rebooting his server.
How often has this occured with other people? Are there any good solutions regarding providing a backup in case Zope does die? (and keep the site running) Are there any serious Zope instability issues which need to be discussed and alerted?
Well, good back ups and all that are an excellent strategy. Further, I almost wonder if you had a backup of the site when it didn't have this problem, if you fired a copy of that up on another port and the problem went away. As it stands now, it could be a bug in Zope, or something changed on your system. The most important part of debugging is reproduction. Reproducing the problem in a controled way can be the hardest part but it is the most important. As a stopgap so that you can get some sleep, you can set up a cron script to reset the server every now and then either nicely (call the servers manage_shutdown) or mean (send it a signal). -Michel