[Zope] urgent stability problem on production site

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:38:06 +0100


Frank Tegtmeyer writes:
 > ...
 > Here are our oftware versions:
 > 
 > Zope 2.4.3
 > TransactionAgents-0.0.4
 > LoginManager-0-8-8b1 (patched)
 > 
 > for database connectivity:
 > MySQL-python-0.9.1
 > ZMySQLDA-2.0.8
 > 
 > Python 2.1.1 (#1, Aug 29 2001, 15:06:31) 
 > [GCC 2.95.4 20010810 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2

You do not read the mailing lists? You should!

There are serious stability problems with Zope 2.4.x and Python 2.1.1.

You should consider one of:

  *  upgrade to Python 2.1.2 and Zope 2.4.4 beta or Zope 2.5

     It might be necessary to force Zope also to use Python implemented
     access control
     instead of the mode optimizate C implemented access control

  *  configure Python 2.1.1 with "--without-pymalloc --without-cyclic-gc"

     This does not fix the problem, but works at the symptoms.
     Your Zope may run a bit longer.

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Dieter