[Zope-dev] file descriptors on Solaris - IT'S A BUG, PEOPLE!

[Richard Jones]

On Wednesday 03 October 2001 22:00, R. David Murray wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, John Ziniti wrote:
> > Yeah ... something tells me it's a little more complicated than that.
>
> Like recompiling the kernel, quite possibly.  On FreeBSD there's
> a sysctl, although you may still have to recompile the kernel in
> some cases I think; on Linux you can zap a variable in proc.  On
> solaris....who knows <wry grin>.
>
> > Any advice on the other front?  If I can reduce the number of files
> > Zope needs to process this request, I'd grumpily agree to do that,
> > is Zope opening a file for every <input name="x.name:records">?
> > Will using <input name="x_names:list"> help?
>
> I don't see why zope should need so many file descriptors.  But
> you may have to start tracing code <frown>.

As I mentioned yesterday, this is a _bug_ in cgi.py which is fixable by 
getting the patch from:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=105470&func=detail&aid=231249


    Richard