[Zope-dev] Connection policies.

[Shane Hathaway]

Chris McDonough wrote:
> Yesterday I made a Zope 2 branch named
> chrism-zserver-connection-policies-branch.
> 
> The benefits that result from the changes are that you can "reserve" a
> thread pool for a particular set of ZServer servers, and that you can
> specify alternate ZODB "connection policies" on a per-server basis.  
> 
> This will allow sites which are having resource exhaustion problems
> (e.g. running out of threads, running out of database connections) to
> continue to be accessible via servers running on "special" ports for
> debugging and maintenance purposes.
> 
> I'd like to merge this into the trunk at some point, but I'd like some
> feedback first.

Forgive me, but I don't see the motivation: a database connection 
represents a large chunk of RAM.  Won't the new policies just cause 
overloaded sites to also run out of RAM?

Shane