[medusa] Re: tweaks to asyn{core,chat}.py (original) (raw)

Robin Becker robin@j...
Sat, 20 Nov 1999 11:06:56 +0000

In article <3.0.5.32.19991119120917.015b83a0@m...>, Amos Latteier <amos@a...> writes ...

... I've been looking at how zombies are handled in Zope. seems that zope has an zhttpchannel analogous to httpchannel; it has the zombie stuff, but without the maintainance thing so the killzombies method doesn't seem to get called. I'm pretty sure that it does get called. zhttpchannel calls checkmaintenance upon initialization.

OK I checked and you are right, but since the kill_zombies only happens every 500 creations things can persist a long time. My mistake. I guess in the worst case a large number of sockets (<500) could be zombies which would be bad for systems with small fd limits.

I noticed that ftpserver doesn't have a zombie timeout is there an obvious reason why not? I've wondered about this too.

-- Robin Becker