[Zope] REPOST: newbie: suddenly only 1 thread! where have the other 3 gone?

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maarten Slaets [mailto:maarten.slaets@kpnqwest.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 4:58 AM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] REPOST: newbie: suddenly only 1 thread! where have the
> other 3 gone?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm reposting my message of 3/12 because I haven't received 
> any answers yet 
> and it's quite a big problem for us. I have external methods 
> that can lag
> the 
> system for a cpl of minutes, so then I need other threads to 
> keep serving
> the 
> other users
> 
> any hints are appreciated. 
> (ex. where can I define the # of zope threads if i'm using pcgi)
> 
> Maarten Slaets wrote:
> > 
> > hi,
> > I've had our zope site up for some time now without a 
> problem. however,
> > since a couple of days, only 1 python process gets spawned:
> >   nobody 11614     1  0   Nov 18 ?        2:24 python
> > /usr/local/Zope-2.0.1-src/pcgi/pcgi_publisher.py
> > This used to be 4 of 'em, like it ought to be. Python is 
> 1.52 and to my
> > knowledge nothing has been changed to apache and pcgi (I 
> use zope 2.0.1 as a
> > virtual host under apache, using pcgi to call zope)
> > have any of you experienced something alike or have 
> suggestion where to
> > look? (I know there's the -t swith for ZServer, but since I use
> > pcgi_publisher.py instead of z2.py ...)

pcgi_publisher.py does not fire up Zope in multi-thread mode.  You must
run ZServer to get multiple threads.  You can still use Apache and PCGI,
ZServer understands PCGI requests.  Run z2.py -h and look at the -p
option.

-Michel