[Zope-ZEO] Advice

[Jim Fulton]

Andy McKay wrote:
> 
> > Packing doesn't totally halt the output from the DB. In fact, there is
> > almost no interruption for packing.  Packing does consume CPU resources,
> > so, for example, zope.org does tend to slow down a little when it's being
> packed,
> > but it is still available. You can, for example, continue to update
> > the database while it's being packed.  ZEO lets you put the storage server
> > on a different machine from the Zope application, so you can separate the
> packing
> > load from the machine that is serving your app.  You can perform expensive
> operations
> > like large imports or catalog updates on a separate machine from your
> application,
> > thus isolating the application from these tasks.
> 
> Really? I guess it could be because we are using ZServer, but we notice that
> when packing the box does nothing else. Its a twin 600 mhz cpu with 1 gig of
> RAM so I would be surprised if the machine is the problem. Umm I would be
> curious to know why this is a problem. Our db is around 1.5 gigs at the
> moment.

I dunno, we don't have this problem on zope.org, which is much less box than
yours.

> We just got a CorruptedTransactionError as well which is cool :(

What is the specific error?

Do you know how to use fsrecover?  

Jim

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