[Zope] ZEO clients eating up / filesystem

30 Sep 2005

      Hi,

We have a ZEO setup with a Plone based intranet, and for some reason it 
seems that Zope is filling up space in the root filesystem. I have to 
restart Zope twice a day to clear it up (restarting Zope clears up the 
space). lsof does not list anything open in the root filesystem and 
swapping is done in the swap partition.

Has anyone observed the same and found a solution?

System details: 
- FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE
- Pyhton 2.3.4 
- Zope 2.7.3
- SOFTWARE_HOME /usr/local/zope/lib/python
- ZOPE_HOME /usr/local/zope  
- INSTANCE_HOME /usr/local/WWW/intranet/zeo_client1 
(2 CPU FreeBSD machines running two ZEO instances)

Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a  1032M   207M   742M    22%    /
/dev/da0s1e   4.1G   519M   3.3G    14%    /usr
/dev/da0s1g   133G   1.3G   121G     1%    /usr/local
/dev/da0s1f   4.1G    53M   3.7G     1%    /var
procfs        4.1K   4.1K     0B   100%    /proc

This is the zope startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d

#!/bin/sh
# Start or stop zope
# $FreeBSD: ports/www/zope/files/zope.sh,v 1.4 2004/11/16 00:02:25 pav Exp $
# PROVIDE: zope
# REQUIRE: DAEMON
# BEFORE: LOGIN
# KEYWORD: FreeBSD shutdown
#
prefix=/usr/local
# Define these zope_* variables in one of these files:
#       /etc/rc.conf
#       /etc/rc.conf.local
#       /etc/rc.conf.d/zope
#
# DO NOT CHANGE THESE DEFAULT VALUES HERE
#
zope_enable=${zope_enable:-"NO"}        # Enable gkrellmd
zope_instances=${zope_instances:-""}    # List of instancehome dirs
. /usr/local/etc/rc.subr
name="zope"
rcvar=`set_rcvar`
load_rc_config $name
if checkyesno zope_enable; then

        case "$1" in
                start)
                        echo "Starting Zope"
                ;;
                stop)
                        echo "Stopping Zope"
                ;;
                restart)
                        echo "Restarting Zope"
                ;;
                *)
                        echo "Unknown action \"$1\""
                ;;
        esac

        last_zope_instance=`echo $zope_instances | /usr/bin/awk {'print 
$NF'}`
        for instance in $zope_instances
        do
                if [ -r ${instance}/etc/${name}.conf -a -x 
${instance}/bin/zopectl ]; then
                        echo -n "       Instance ${instance} -> "
                        ${instance}/bin/zopectl $1
                        if [ $instance != $last_zope_instance ]; then
                                echo "sleeping 40 seconds between 
instances to prevent read conflict errors during startup"
                                sleep 40
                        fi
                fi
        done
fi

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