[ZODB-Dev] ZEO invalidation message transaction-inbound or outbound

[Shane Hathaway]

On 12/01/2012 11:22 AM, Andreas Jung wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Andreas Jung <lists at zopyx.com>
>> wrote:
>>> a customer made the observation that that ZEO clients became
>>> inconsistent after some time (large CMF-based application running
>>> on Zope 2.12 afaik). Customer made some investigation and noticed
>>> that the ZEO invalidations have been queued (in some cases for
>>> hours).
>>
>> I can't imagine invalidations being queued for many seconds, much
>> less hours without some serious network pathology.
>>
>> How did they come to this conclusion?
>
> I am only asking on customer behalf. This was their observation.

Did the customer mean to say that the clients becomes stale (not 
"inconsistent")?  I've seen ZEO clients become stale due to network 
instability.  The clients caught up the moment they changed something. 
This was years ago, though.

Shane