[Zope] httpd processes

[Dieter Maurer]

Stephan Goeldi writes:
 > >Furthermore, one would expect a malicious DOS attack when all
 > >15 Zope instances show this problem at the same time.
 > >
 > >Something else seems to happen...
 > 
 > the funny thing is, that by a direct request (via ip address and port 
 > number) Zope doesn't answer.
 > 
 > When I restart httpd (not Zope), Zope and Apache again answer. So I don't 
 > restart Zope. I think this is a problem of httpd, not Zope. But why doesn't 
 > Zope answer when this problem occurs?
Just a weird idea:

   Could it be that you run out of file descriptors?
   In that case, Zope would not be able to accept the new connection.
   Shutting down "httpd" would free some file descriptors.



Dieter