[Zope] Zope/Cache/Memory

[Jonathan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kevin7kal" <plone at kevinkal.com>
To: <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 2:30 PM
Subject: [Zope] Zope/Cache/Memory


>I have a database that is just under 200K objects with plans that it will 
>grow larger.  The objects are created by using another object with methods 
>that read files and create the objects from the data in the files.  When 
>creating the objects, I find I have to manually clear the cache or else 
>zope eventually crashes with an out of memory error.
> There are 4GB of ram on the server. The same issue arises when I catalog 
> the objects.  I am trying maintain as much speed as possible, so I do not 
> want to catalog until the end of the import.

Make sure you have correctly set the cache parameters in zope.conf, and make 
sure that the ZCatalog subtransactions are enabled  - and you can play 
around with the threshold values to improve performance (I am assuming that 
the database you mentioned was a ZCatalog).

hth

Jonathan