[Zope] accelerating Zope restart

2006-08-31 Thread egf05
Hi,

My Data.fs is huge (21GB) because it contains many video files. This is not a
problem in itself, however, I recently had to reboot my machine and now zope
takes around 20-30 minutes to restart. Is a fstest automatically done ? How
could I accelerate the restarting, if possible ? 

Thanks a lot for any advice,
Eric
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Re: [Zope] accelerating Zope restart

2006-08-31 Thread Andreas Jung



--On 31. August 2006 12:18:24 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi,

My Data.fs is huge (21GB) because it contains many video files. This is
not a problem in itself, however, I recently had to reboot my machine and
now zope takes around 20-30 minutes to restart. Is a fstest automatically
done ? How could I accelerate the restarting, if possible ?



Zope does maintain a Data.fs.index file. If it becomes corrupt e.g. through 
an unclean shutdown then Zope will recreate it by scanning the whole 
Data.fs file when starting Zope the next time. This will take some 
timeso before rebooting you should shutdown down your Zope properly.


-aj

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Re: [Zope] accelerating Zope restart

2006-08-31 Thread Chris Withers

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My Data.fs is huge (21GB) because it contains many video files. This is not a
problem in itself, however, I recently had to reboot my machine and now zope
takes around 20-30 minutes to restart. Is a fstest automatically done ? How
could I accelerate the restarting, if possible ? 


Use ZEO.

Make sure the storage server shuts down properly so it saves its indexes 
to disk.


cheers,

Chris

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Re: [Zope] accelerating Zope restart

2006-08-31 Thread egf05
 Zope does maintain a Data.fs.index file. If it becomes corrupt e.g. through 
 an unclean shutdown then Zope will recreate it by scanning the whole 
 Data.fs file when starting Zope the next time. This will take some 
 timeso before rebooting you should shutdown down your Zope properly.
 
 -aj

OK, thanks.

Eric
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Re: [Zope] accelerating Zope restart

2006-08-31 Thread Jonathan


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Subject: [Zope] accelerating Zope restart



Hi,

My Data.fs is huge (21GB) because it contains many video files. This is 
not a
problem in itself, however, I recently had to reboot my machine and now 
zope
takes around 20-30 minutes to restart. Is a fstest automatically done ? 
How

could I accelerate the restarting, if possible ?



You may also want to have a look at the localfs product which would allow 
you to store your large video files on the local file system instead of 
inside the ZODB (but still access them as if they were stored in the ZODB).


http://sourceforge.net/projects/localfs


Jonathan 


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Re: [Zope] accelerating Zope restart

2006-08-31 Thread egf05
 
 Zope does maintain a Data.fs.index file. If it becomes corrupt e.g. through 
 an unclean shutdown then Zope will recreate it by scanning the whole 
 Data.fs file when starting Zope the next time. This will take some 
 timeso before rebooting you should shutdown down your Zope properly.
 

OK, I have two questions about shutting down zope:

- To cleanly shut down zope daemon, is zopectl stop enough ?

- If zope runs in the foreground, how to shut it down cleanly ? CTRL+C won't do
it I guess ?

Eric
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Re: [Zope] accelerating Zope restart

2006-08-31 Thread Paul Winkler
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:23:06PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 My Data.fs is huge (21GB) because it contains many video files. This is 
 not a
 problem in itself, however, I recently had to reboot my machine and now 
 zope
 takes around 20-30 minutes to restart. Is a fstest automatically done ? How
 could I accelerate the restarting, if possible ? 
 
 Use ZEO.

I can see how that could let Zope restart faster.  But 
ZEO can have *severe* performance implications for large blobs
such as videos.  See the bottom of
http://www.slinkp.com/code/zopestuff/blobnotes
 
Maybe worth noting that DirectoryStorage starts up fast regardless of
storage size.  http://dirstorage.sourceforge.net/

It also does not require RAM proportional to storage size.
It is also very reliable and has some other nice features.
The downsides:
- You need a filesystem that can handle very large number of tiny files.
- Packing is VERY slow (21 GB could easily take all night).
- Somewhat slower than Filestorage in general.
- Requires more disk space (+30%).

This page is old but maybe still useful:
http://cvs.zope.org/ZODB3/Doc/storages.html?rev=1

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Paul Winkler
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