[Zope] Zope hangs when copying large/many objects

[Jamie Heilman]

>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
>  9201 nobody    16   5  299M 228M  1176 S N   2.9 91.1   5:21 python
>  9203 nobody    16   5  299M 228M  1176 S N   2.7 91.1  18:15 python

You're into swap, thats why its so slow, either get more memory or
change your strategy.
 
> The harddisk has 1,5G free space, it's one partition,
...
> Memory: 256816k/262080k available
...
> Adding Swap: 136512k swap-space (priority -1)

This is not a well configured server, nor is this the list to discuss
why, but if you want to get a reasonable amount of performance out
your hardware I suggest you research system setup & rationale some.

-- 
Jamie Heilman                   http://audible.transient.net/~jamie/
"We must be born with an intuition of mortality.  Before we know the words
 for it, before we know there are words, out we come bloodied and squalling
 with the knowledge that for all the compasses in the world, there's only
 one direction, and time is its only measure."		-Rosencrantz