[Zope] import and setting tmp dir

[Chris McDonough]

John,

It sounds like you've done everything right.

One painful way to find out where it *is* writing the tempfile may be to 
run Python/Zope under strace and do the import.

- C


John Hunter wrote:
> When I try and import a large zexp, I get a 'Error Value: [Errno 28]
> No space left on device' (traceback below).  If I do a 'df' while the
> import is processing, I can see the it is my root partition that is
> filling up.
> 
> My zope install dir does not live on the root partition, and I have
> set the TMPDIR env var in my zope start script to point to a non root
> partition that has plenty of space.  When I start the python
> interpreter in this environment, with the same command that I use to
> start zope in 'start' and test the tempfile config, it points to the
> dir I set with TMPDIR (ie, /workn/tmp)
> 
> 
>>>>import tempfile
>>>>print tempfile.mktemp()
>>>
> /workn/tmp/@13559.0
> 
> However, if I restart zope and try to do the import again, I get the
> same device full message and I see with df that it is the root
> partition that is filling up again.
> 
> I have no idea why this is happening -- is it possible that there is
> some tmp file allocation that is going on independently of tempfile
> with the import, and if so, can anyone suggest how I can set where
> that storage should reside?
> 
> Thanks,
> John Hunter
> 
> Zope Version
> (Zope 2.5.1b1 (source release, python 2.1, linux2), python 2.1.3, linux2)
> Python Version
> 2.1.3 (#1, Apr 12 2002, 00:33:22) 
> [GCC 3.0.4]
> System Platform
> linux2
> 
> 
> Traceback:
> 
> Zope Error
> Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource.
> Error Type: IOError
> Error Value: [Errno 28] No space left on device
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> 
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 150, in publish_module
>   File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 114, in publish
>   File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 159, in zpublisher_exception_hook
>     (Object: Zope)
>   File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 98, in publish
>   File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 88, in mapply
>     (Object: manage_importObject)
>   File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 39, in call_object
>     (Object: manage_importObject)
>   File /usr/local/Zope-2.5.1b1-src/lib/python/OFS/ObjectManager.py, line 521, in manage_importObject
>     (Object: Zope)
>   File /usr/local/Zope-2.5.1b1-src/lib/python/OFS/ObjectManager.py, line 537, in _importObjectFromFile
>     (Object: Zope)
>   File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZODB/ExportImport.py, line 79, in importFile
>   File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZODB/Transaction.py, line 234, in commit
>   File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZODB/Connection.py, line 235, in commit
>   File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZODB/ExportImport.py, line 152, in _importDuringCommit
>   File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZODB/TmpStore.py, line 77, in store
> IOError: (see above)
> 
> 
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