Yes, I'm running a stock 2.3.0 installation *except* I made that one change to the sourcecode (otherwise the PythonScripts would take a long time to load ever 10-30 seconds. The line used to read: if getattr(self, Python_magic, None) != Python_magic: And it now reads: if getattr(self, 'Python_magic', None) != Python_magic: FYI - it appears to be the _number_ of parameters. If I call the DTML document with 12 parameters (context,REQUEST,p0=0,...p11=11) it fails under load, anything less than that (i.e. drop *any* one or more of the paramters) and it's ok. I don't know if it's some critical limit I'm hitting (like stack space or something equivalent) - I still don't know enough about Zope's internals to find out. (If you want a rootshell on the machine running it, let me know) Regards, Phil +----------------------------------+ | Phil Mayers, Network Support | | Centre for Computing Services | | Imperial College | +----------------------------------+ -----Original Message----- From: Evan Simpson [mailto:evan@4-am.com] Sent: 28 March 2001 20:22 To: Mayers, Philip J Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: DTML documents killing Zope (was RE: [Zope] ZServer dying) From: "Mayers, Philip J" <p.mayers@ic.ac.uk>

I have a PythonScript (called as a Web page) which renders the HTML by calling external DTML documents, and supplies form field variables as 10 keyword arguments. This seems to crash Zope if called under load. If I don't supply the keyword arguments (and of course, the field isn't filled in) then everything is OK.

Just to get this out of the way as a possible cause, if you grep PythonScript.py for "magic", does the following line have quote marks around the first 'Python_magic' (in getattr)? It should. if getattr(self, 'Python_magic', None) != Python_magic: Cheers, Evan @ digicool