[Zope] Zope does not respond but still running

[Dieter Maurer]

Lars H. Korte writes:
 > I have a similar problem.
 > I am trying to reindex a lot of object (approx. 140.000) in a TextIndex
 > and after about 10 minutes of hard work and eating up the CPU, swapping
 > like hell and taking away 90% of the memory, the processes calm down and
 > begin to "sleep". Just sometimes a process becomes running again for a
 > few seconds. The swapping goes on like if he's still trying to reindex.
 > 
 > After updating my machine (128MB RAM) to 500MB of swapspace, there's no
 > change.
 > The zope processes are running, but neither can I access the ZMI nor my
 > site.
 > 
 > Any ideas?
Look at "subtransactions" in the ZCatalog "Advanced" tab.
Activate them. This will reduce memory consumption.


Dieter