[Zope] Zope Newbie having performance problems with v 2.6.1 n eeds a little advice...

[sean.upton@uniontrib.com]

Likely a RedHat 9 threads issue; search the archives of this list in the
past 2 months; there should be a wealth of info, I think including a fix...

Sean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dominic Caffey [mailto:dcaffey_fl@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 5:09 PM
> To: zope newbies zope; zope help zope
> Subject: [Zope] Zope Newbie having performance problems with v 2.6.1
> needs a little advice...
> 
> 
> Dear Zope Community,
> 
>      A little advice on the following problem
> would be appreciated:  I recently downloaded v
> 2.6.1 as Zope-2.6.1-linux2-x86.tgz from
> www.zope.org  and installed in in /usr/local/Zope
> on RedHat 9.0 running on a Pentium Pro 180 MHz
> w/128Mb ram.  RHL-9 is running fine but I can't
> say the same for Zope.  The static index page
> from the webserver comes up fine and the ftp
> server works like a champ but when I try to get
> into the management console after successfully
> authenticating the console never fully comes up
> or  comes up but with a lot of broken images and
> I can't get to anywhere below the root level
> and/or the webserver never completes the request
> to the browser I'm hitting the server from.  I've
> tried this both on the same machine that Zope is
> running on and from other machines in my LAN and
> I always get the same behavior.  I've checked the
> log files: /usr/local/Zope/zope_event_log.log and
> /usr/local/Zope/var/Z2.log for complaints from
> Zope but there are none; the logs indicate that
> Zope is happy but it's not behaving as if it is. 
> I tried adding the "-t" and "-n" flags to the
> start script to get Zope to demand more resources
> from the system but still no change.  Here's what
> the line from the script currently looks like: 
> "exec /usr/local/Zope/bin/python $cwd/z2.py -u
> zope -w 192.168.123.101:8080 -f
> 192.168.123.101:8021 -t 16 -i 30".  Running "top"
> on the Zope host while the request is trying to
> complete shows that the cpu is 94% idle.  I'm a
> little low on disk right now per "df -k" output
> of
> [root@den Zope]# df -k
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used
> Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3              2793952   2426412   
> 225616  92% /
> /dev/hda2                97602      9174    
> 83388  10% /boot
> none                     63028         0    
> 63028   0% /dev/shm
> 
> but I kind of doubt this is my problem because
> the rest of the system is running so well.  I've
> also looked in /var/log/messages and have not
> found any problems.  /usr/local/Zope/var is also
> owned by root and is wide open per: drwxrwxrwt   
> 2 root     root         4096 Jun  7 10:31 var.
> 
> I also installed Zope 2.5.? on a 400MHz Celeron
> w/64Mb running Debian Woody Linux that I've kept
> up to date via network apt-get.  Zope on this box
> runs like a champ.  Deb-Conf did the whole setup;
> I never had to do anything.
> 
> I'm inclined to believe that I'm dealing with
> some sort of a tuning issue but I am a Zope
> "newbie" and am therefore appealing to those more
> knowledgeable than myself.  I've been trying to
> use the "Zope Bible" by Bernstein & Robertson for
> guidance and I've sifted thru the Zope archives
> but haven't been able to find anything which
> addresses my issues.  Any help/guidance on the
> problems mentioned above would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> Humbly,
> 
> Dom
> 
> 
> =====
> +------------------------------
> | Dominic Caffey
> | Email:  dcaffey_fl@yahoo.com
> +------------------------------
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