[ZODB-Dev] zeo 2: asyncore?

[Guido van Rossum]

> Here's the result of trying this on Red Hat 7.2.  I'm getting the
> same behavior I was seeing before with a source install of Zope in
> the ZEO unit tests: They seem to hang on checkCommitLock2OnCommit.

This is a known bug in the ZEO 2.0b1 release (as are the other
occasionally hanging tests you report below).  This hang is
particularly persistent on Red Hat 7.2.  It's fixed in ZEO CVS AFAICT.
We'll do a b2 release in the next couple of weeks.

> Also, the usual timeouts from the browser.

Usual for you. :-)

> Hmm, now I'm beginning to wonder whether my fake TLD for internal
> addresses is the problem.  My dhcp server is also running dnscache
> (from djbdns) to serve these names.  What's weird about that is Zope
> without ZEO works just fine (i.e., if I don't place the
> custom_zodb.py in instance home).  So maybe this is a red herring.

But maybe it isn't.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)