[medusa] Re: tweaks to asyn{core,chat}.py

[Robin Becker]

In article <3.0.5.32.19991119120917.015b83a0@m...>, Amos
Latteier <amos@a...> writes
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>>I've been looking at how zombies are handled in Zope. seems that zope
>>has an zhttp_channel analogous to http_channel; it has the zombie stuff,
>>but without the maintainance thing so the kill_zombies method doesn't
>>seem to get called.
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>I'm pretty sure that it *does* get called. zhttp_channel calls
>check_maintenance 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.

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