[Zope-CMF] zope spins when try to update workflow

[Jens Vagelpohl]

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On 28 Dec 2006, at 20:30, Edmund Moseley wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Originally posted this on zope at zope.org, and was pointed in this  
> direction instead.
> Hopefully somebody can help with what follows...
>
> When I try to run "Update security settings" in the portal_workflow
> tool, my zope process gradually swallows up all the cpu, seems to  
> still
> be running fine, but then after a couple of hours, swallows up all the
> memory, the load avg on the server exceeds 4 and makes it pretty well
> unresponsive.

Updating those settings will cause all objects affected by that  
particular workflow to be reindexed, which means they will all be  
loaded into memory. This can lead to memory exhaustion and swapping.

That's the generic answer without having any details about your  
particular setup.

jens



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