[Zope-dev] Zope 2.X Session problems

[Chris McDonough]

What do you have the transient object timeout set for?

On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 02:57, alex at halogen-dg.com wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Chris McDonough wrote:
> 
> > > I am using new Transience.py, and my temp_folder is on Sessions.fs ZODB 
> > > now. I have one problem with it - it does not seems that this way it 
> > > deletes old expired Sessions. The number of objects grow and grow, and 
> > > today we reached limit.
> > 
> > You reached a disk space limit?  Or a number of session objects limit?
> 
> We have more then 10gb of free disk space. No, I reached the session 
> objects limit. It was set as 10000, now I set it as 50000, and the counter
> is going higher every day.
> 
> > >  I think I have to delete Sessions.fs every night 
> > > and restart Zope. Is it expected expected behavior when using file 
> > > storage? I was thinking that only problem of this kind of storage is the 
> > > need to pack the database sometimes.
> > 
> > That was the intent.  You did pack and it didn't reduce the file size?
> 
> Yes, I packed it, size reduced, but the number of session objects still
> the same. And keep growing.
> 
> Today morning stats (nobody works now, people still slepping at England):
> 
>  12567 items are in this transient object container.
> 
>  Data object timeout value in minutes: 20
> 
>  Maximum number of subobjects: 50000
> 
> Yesterday there was only 10000 session objects. Now, I am packing ZODB:
> 
> --- before pack ---
>  Database Location: /home/zope/current2/var/Sessions.fs 
>  Database Size: 6.2M 
>  Transient Object Container at  /temp_folder/session_data
>  12568 items are in this transient object container.
> --- after pack ----
>  Database Location: /home/zope/current2/var/Sessions.fs 
>  Database Size: 59.8K 
>  Transient Object Container at  /temp_folder/session_data
>  12570 items are in this transient object container.
> 
> 
> --
> Alex V. Koval
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