[Zope] Re: Zope scalabilty and problems

[Tres Seaver]

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Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Florent Guillaume wrote at 2005-9-5 16:49 +0200:
> 
>>...
>>
>>>It is just that the CMF is unable to fix a year long bug
>>
>>It's not "CMF"'s fault, it's only the responsibility of Windows developers 
>>running CMF. I for one couldn't care less.
> 
> 
> Really?
> 
>    That the CMF makes an hierarchical filesystem scan for
>    each access to a filesystem directory view
>    should be the responsibility of the Windows developers running CMF?
>    
>    There are no bugs: if you meat one, it proves that you
>    use the wrong system...
> 
> 
>>...
>>
>>>      then each access to a "filesystem directory view" triggers
>>>      a hierarchical file system scan.
>>>
>>>      The result is a slowdown by several orders of magnitude.
>>
>>I believe Tres has now fixed this.
> 
> It was not yet fixed when I made an svn checkout of the CMF 1.5 branch
> about 2 weeks ago.

The patch I merged for the CMF 1.5.2 release (back in late July), did
not completely remove the 'os.pathwalk':  it merely made the exclusion
of the .svn directory work cleanly.  The better fix would be to use the
Win32 APIs for file monitoring;  Mark Hammond volunteered to look into that.


Tres.
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