[Zope] Session Variables disappear

[Paul Winkler]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:44:32AM -0700, Dennis Allison wrote:
> 
> Zope 2.6.2b3, Py 2.1.3, Linux
> 
> We use session variables everywhere and have a fairly large number of
> concurrent sessions.  Every so often the session variables go away and
> the whole house of cards collapses becasuse nearly everything depends upon
> session variables.
> 
> I tried a while back to isolate the problem without success.  At that time
> someone suggestedit was a known problem open problem.  I've just checked
> the collector and did not see any open issues there.  The frustrating
> thing is that it is the irreproducable Heissenbug behavior.
> 
> Can anyone shed additional light on the issue.  Is anyone else observing
> similar behavior?  Or is the problem something due to the way we are using 
> session variables.

Check the zope-dev list archives, session & transience issues have been 
under discussion a lot in the past few weeks. Chris McDonough and others 
have  been digging into it. I'm just a bystander, but it sounds likely that 
sessions in the 2.7.1 release will be much better, if not yet flawless.

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Paul Winkler
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