[Zope-dev] How to pause a Zope system

[Joshua Brauer]

I came across this by accident.... but I found a sure-fire way to get Zope (2.0.1) on Linux (RH 6.1) to consume all of the CPU resources for several minutes rendering the box useless at that time.

Create a frameset document (mine had 5 frames in it)

For the source of one of the frames give it a DTML Method with NOTHING in it.

Try to view the document (at a time when you don't mind your server hanging up for several minutes. The first time it happened to me I hard booted the box before it came back to life, but for kicks start top on the box and monitor the CPU usage while this is going on).
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