[Zope] Why does Zope run multiple instances of z2.py by default?

[Martijn Pieters]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 05:54:30PM +1100, Tim Edwards wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was just wondering why Zope runs multiple threads of z2.py by default? For
> example in my ps listing I have:
> 
> zope     18183     1  0 10:25 ?        00:00:00 /home/zope/Zope/bin/python
> /home/zope/Zope/z2.py -u zope -f - p -
> zope     18184 18183  0 10:25 ?        00:00:10 /home/zope/Zope/bin/python
> /home/zope/Zope/z2.py -u zope -f - p -
> 
> However one of my colleagues only has a single zope instance appear in his
> ps listing on his machine. His zope installation still runs fine. We are
> running Zope on Red Hat Linux 9. Does something like this make a difference?

Zope forks the process early onwards; one daemon process, one controller.
This can be controlled using the -Z command line option. See z2.py -h for
info on that option.

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