[Zope] Putting Zope into a tailspin can kill a whole Linux Server

[Dieter Maurer]

Toby Dickenson writes:
 > On Sat, 3 Nov 2001 00:04:33 +0100, Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de>
 > wrote:
 > > > Well, it kills off Apache, kills off SSH (no more remote access), 
 > kills off FTP. They all just become unresponsive. 
 > >Seems as if Zope eats all network resources...
 > 
 > A recently-fixed ZEO bug can eat file descriptors.....
But only with very strange system configuration that of other
processes.

    Usually, you have a per process limit of 256 or 1024
    file descriptors.
    The operating system should have more, for use by other
    processes.


Dieter