hi! we are still having problems with freezing zope servers. we are relaying requests to an http server in the intranet, that means we are retrieving the page via httplib. under some circumstances, i.e. with slow pages and several concurrent requests, Zope freezes completely (all threads) until the requested page is fully processed. If somebody has experienced likewise and/or has any info or help. ciao, basti Zope Version: Zope 2.4.1 (source release, python 2.1, linux2) Python version: 2.1.1 (#3, Jan 24 2002, 17:10:04) [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)] Number of threads: 50 (Zserver -t option) - experimenting... Interpreter check interval: default value = 120 (Zserver -i option) Current code (x-th revision): http = httplib.HTTP( host ) http.putrequest( "GET", url ) http.putheader( 'Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' ) http.putheader( 'Content-length', '0' ) http.putheader( 'Accept', 'text/html' ) # we can handle text/html http.putheader( 'Accept', 'text/plain' ) # we can handle text/plain http.putheader( 'Host', host ) http.endheaders() http.send('') r1, r2, r3 = http.getreply() r4 = http.getfile() pageSrc = r4.read() r4.close() return pageSrc -- Sebastian Lühnsdorf (sfl@beehive-eu.com)