Jon Prettyman wrote:

Well, I'm having no luck getting a core file from my Zope on this production linux box. I'm still getting the Aiieeee! But can't get a core for the life of me.

Have you guys been able to reproduce anything similar?

I'm able to get Zope to dump a core file if run in debug mode ('-D'). I haven't proved this, but I suspect that when a fork()ed child dies it does not dump a core file. Since debug mode does not cause Zope to fork off Zope as a child from the parent watchdog, a core file is produced. None of this is mentioned on the fork() man page, or the clone() man page, or whatever. I probably need a good UNIX programming reference to verify it. Give it a try, fire up Zope in debug mode and run your load scripts against it to reproduce your segfault. -Michel