[Zope] [Fwd: Zope fails on large task?]

[David Whiteley]

Thanks,

This might be the fix.  I too had tried ProxyTimeout without success.

It is now behaving a lot better.  

Dave



On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 09:25 +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> En/na Jim Fulton ha escrit:
> 
> > It works for a few people.  If I try too many people it fails with an
> >    Error reading from remote server
> > message from the Apache.
> > 
> > I cannot find any hints in the apache or zope logs.  I have tried to
> > monitor the server to see if any resources are running out, but have not
> > found anything. 
> > 
> > 
> > Can anyone suggest how I try to diagnose this failure. 
> 
> Maybe (just maybe) it's a timeout: I saw this when performing a long 
> plone migration (though the migration completed anyway). The default 
> timeout is 5 minutes, so this is easy to rule out: if the error comes 
> out after five minutes it's probably this error (or less if the apache 
> configuration uses a lower value).
> There are many apache parameters to control the timeout, but IIRC the 
> only one that worked here is the Timeout parameter (though I'm not sure 
> it solved my issue, I *do* remember that ProxyTimeout, which seemed the 
> correct parameter to me, did nothing to prevent the problem).
> 
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#timeout
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxytimeout
> 
> Bye
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Dave Whiteley
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