[Zope-dev] UndoSearch Timeout

[Toby Dickenson]

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 22:05, Brian Brinegar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have a ZODB which is about 12 - 14 gigs when packed. We use
> FileStorage, and when anyone clicks Undo eventually times out. This is
> better now that the undoLog does not lock the database.
>
> However if there are not enough transactions to fill the batch Undo is
> useless. So, everytime we upgrade to a new version of Zope I patch
> FileStorage.py to add a timeout. Used to be 3 seconds when the ZODB
> locked, now I've bumped it up to 10 seconds.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem? Would adding the timeout, possibly set
> by an environment variable, be considered by the maintainers?

DirectoryStorage has always provided a timeout, set by config file. There have 
been occasions where I wanted to wait for the full detail, and a global 
timeout setting was inconvenient. Is it worth adding it as a new parameter to 
these functions?

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