[Zope-dev] FreeBSD, Zope and Plone

[alan runyan]

I have just spent several hours trying to get plone.org back up.
It appears that Plone and FreeBSD are not made for each other.
I end up getting core dumps.  I applied the 'thread stack' patch.
I also tried to use Python2.2.1 w/ chrism_installer branch and
I get the same results.  

I am most likely going to move away from FreeBSD to Linux -
which is a shame, one less FreeBSD/Zope/Plone combination
running in the wild.  I know the iMeme guys have Plone running
but I have seen really freakish behavior there as well.  So I am
giving up.  If someone wants to hand hold me - I will try again
but in a few minutes I'm moving the Data.fs file to a linux box
and trying to get plone.org back up.

Notes from my experience:
- chrism_installer_branch is *very very* nice - thanks ChrisM.

- seemingly large file support is never turned on by default in
python tarballs.  I think this is a shame.  I dont know the reasons
but reading the posix large file page is very scary.  Zope Corp
should always enable large file support on all of their python
interpreters. 

- Its really depressing that Python/FreeBSD/Plone have this problem.
iirc yahoo.com runs lots of FreeBSD boxens running python for
some of their services.  but the fact that I have spent some 3 hours
trying to get all of this to work and Plone still causes python to
core dump is a huge shame.  CMF sites work fine.  Plone site crash.
I have never seen Plone crash on either win32 or linux.  This is
FreeBSD problem.

please help make Zope/Python/*BSD work together gurus - your
our only hope.  I remember asking the python maintainer to up
the thread stack size in python2.1.2 and his response was something
like - if your requiring more than whats allocated you have serious
problems.

~runyaga