[Zope-dev] Connection policies.

[Chris McDonough]

> 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?

No.  Well, at least one implementation won't. ;-)  We don't reserve a pool of
database connections for the special servers.  The connection policy can use a
temporary connection, which AFAIK does not keep a ZODB cache.

But you're right in the sense that this won't help RAM-bound applications;
that's what AutoLance is for.  It will help debug sites where there's a
database connection leak or sites where all public threads are tied up
waiting for a database connection (if only to be able to restart it via
the mgmt interface).

- C