[Zope] Re: mass editing timeout problem

[Chris Withers]

Laurence Rowe wrote:
> Use Firefox, it won't time out.

That depends on the version...

>> I written my code so it informs me on dos command prompt about what 
>> picture it is processing and how long it took until starts the next 
>> one. The process started fast, but it gradually slows down and 

I'd bet you're chewing through lots of memory, which is causing 
swapping, which is why it's slowing down...

>> eventually my web browser (my interface to start the process) timeout  
>> but the command prompt is still running. I waited until the command 
>> prompt finish all the picture and click open the picture in zope and 
>> no action was done on any pictures that was supposely to be resized.

That's surprising...

>> I try the same process but targeted only one folder (less pictures)and 
>> the process worked fine and all the picture were resized accordingly 
>> and the web browser didn't timeout.
>>  
>> How come nothing happened when the browser timeout??

A web browser is not the way to drive a batch process like this. I'd 
suggest you look at stepper:

http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/zope/stepper

cheers,

Chris

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