Jürgen Herrmann wrote:

no how can i run 2 zope processes from the same instance home with 2 different config files?

What version of Zope is this? Should be fine, provided the instances are configured to use different pid files, log files, local zodb cache files, etc... Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

2009/11/4 Jürgen Herrmann <Juergen.Herrmann@xlhost.de>:

currently i'm running a single zope2 process with relstorage as storage backend. to improve performance for our end users i'd like to fire up a 2nd zope2 process that will handle all internal background processes and db packing.

for simplicity's sake i'd like to share the instance_home directory between these two processes, just use a different config file to enter a different http port for each server.

no how can i run 2 zope processes from the same instance home with 2 different config files? modifying $INSTANCE_HOME/zopectl to include a different config file name does not work, as it's also contained in $INSTANCE_HOME/runzope. renaming/modifying runzope does not work either, as it's name is hardcoded somewhere in zopectl.

If you are using RelStorage you won't be saving much space by reusing the instance home. I'd be wary of sharing the directory between instances, because 3rd party products sometimes use it to store instance-specific data (e.g. not sharable between 2 zope processes). -- Martijn Pieters