[Zope-dev] debugging wedged zopes

[Evan Simpson]

Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Leonardo Rochael Almeida writes:
>  > ....
>  > sometimes it's sitting there nicely by itself at 196MB of RSS memory,
>  > suddenly it starts eating memory like a pig and responding VERY slowly.
>  > ...
>  > Is there a way to know what a Zope thread is doing at a certain point in
>  > time, or at least what request it is trying to serve?
> When you see it happen, you may (still) be able to go to
> "Control_Panel" -> "Debug Information". At the bottom of this page,
> you see the current requests.

I recently had to do this to debug serious problems with SMB 
authentication using exUserFolder.  Under Linux, at least, you can get 
some serious traction on the problem.  See 
http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/debugspinningzope for details.

Cheers,

Evan @ 4-am