[Zope] odd zope behavior -- variable size limits?

[Dieter Maurer]

Keith J. Farmer writes:
 > I've got a calculation engine written in C, extending python.
 > ...
 > ..., apache complains that it can't reach
 > the zope host (error 502).
 > ...
 > *call dataset cruncher
 >  (internal to the cruncher, get big uber dataset [~100k, more or less],
 > perform calculations that run about 10secs or less, and then pass back
 > roughly 20 numbers as a result)
 > ...
 > I notice that there's a lot of disk activity when this process starts
 > up.  I'm wondering if it's always reloading the dll file, or if apache's
 > too impatient, or what.
Seems the timeout mechanism is activated in Apache and a bit too low
for your computation...


Dieter