"Kid clicking" is a technical term used in multimedia game programs, referring to firing multiple click events quickly. The most scary part is that under intense clicking, a multi-threaded program would go into dead-lock.

I have a Zope application running. When I kid-click on one button, it actually locks Zope up. This error does not happen when I run Zope in single-thread mode. So, for the bug seems to come from Zope thread dead-locking.

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My Zope is 2.1.6. More info: it happens both with Netscape and IE. More info: when kid clicking on the webpage, actual requests are sent to the Zope server, I see from the terminal 4 lines about

2000-06-30T00:29:43 PROBLEM(100) ZSybaseDA Changed database context to 'master'. Changed database context to 'mydatabase'.

and it then goes into deadlock. Not sure whether it's Sybase or Zope problem.

The quick way to determine this: install a fresh Zope without SybaseDA installed and see if you can reproduce the kid-clicking behavior. Another thing potentially to look at: there is problem with Sybase connections that I have run into before where if you have a request that runs a transactional query, then a non- transactional query, then trys another transactional query you get a hang :( I don't know if this could be the case here, but if so you might want to look here for more info: http://classic.zope.org:8080/Collector/1059/view Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com