[Zope] Win32, Zope and FTP

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Fri, 13 Dec 2002 22:22:46 +0100


toman writes:
 > I'm trying to put together a collaboration app that allows users to 
 > share large datasets. When I ftp the data, which has numerous folders
 > and large (~100Meg) and small files in them, to a Zope 2.6.0 server
 > running on Windows XP, it will transfer many but not all of the 
 > datasets. Then if I try to make another object, say a folder, through 
 > ftp or the management screens, the server hangs.
Maybe, your FTP client forgets to close connections.

  After some time, Zope will have no more file descriptors
  to accept further requests.

 > The same test on a 
 > Linux box running Mandrake 8.something doesn't show this problem at all.
With the same FTP client?

 > Ideas? I would guess that it's a threading problem, mostly because in my 
 > experience threads suck on Windows, but I don't know enough about the 
 > Zope internals to prove it.
I have not yet heard of (modern) Windows threading problems.
They seem to be better supported than on Unix.



Dieter