[Zope-dev] Re: Zope hanging (poss. threads-related)

[Marcus Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr. Ross Lazarus [mailto:rossl@med.usyd.edu.au]
> Sent: 17 April 2000 11:38
> To: zope-dev@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope-dev] Re: Zope hanging (poss. threads-related)

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> I think it was worth the effort even though it didn't break anything -
> one thing we really need is a reproducible way to make this problem
> appear. As Amos has said, the problem may lie deep in the 
> bowels of the applications running on top of zserver. Given that there 
> was mention that freebsd installations seemed immune, we have the the 
> Linux thread libraries to content with as well as all the zope code 
> running at crash prone sites..anyone got this happening with an old 
> linux install? I only have access to redhat 6.1

I don't think us FreeBSD users are quite immune... So far, we've had reports
of hanging/restarts/crashes on FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris. The three use
vastly different thread libraries, so I don't think it's your thread
libraries that are at fault.
 
> I've added a comment to Marcus's wiki page for collecting data on this
> problem - suggest anyone else with the problem does the
> same...http://www.zope.org/Members/tseaver/Projects/HighlyAvai
> lableZope/DiagnosingHangProblems

Thanks for the feedback!

Regards,

-- Marcus