Thanks for the suggestions, Charlie. Will try as you suggested.
Jamie On 4/6/06, Charlie Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2006-04-06 at 16:34:01 [+0200], Jamie O'Keefe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On 4/6/06, Charlie Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This still should not be causing this problem. Jamie, you should be > > > talking > > > to the DBA or looking at the DB side of things. > > > > Well it is a volunteer operation, so we don't specifically have a dba, > > but will talk with the person who set up the db. > > > > > Is the DB running on the > > > same machine as Zope or on the network? > > > > Yes. > > > > > What are connection times set to? > > > > Do you mean the connection timeout time? > > Yes. The default for these are very high which often causes problems for > applications that don't implement connection pooling. However, as I > previously said this is unlikely to be the source of the problem. > > > > It might simply be that MySQL is running out of connections although this > > > usually means that the whole machine runs slow. > > > > We upped the # of connections and I have seen 51 connections open at > > one time. Not sure the rate at which people are accessing the form > > and submitting it, but I believe it may be 25-50 a day. > > At that rate there is no reason on the Zope side for the connection being > dropped. There could be a problem with the underlying Python driver and thus > the ZopeDA so you might want to install the latest version of both: > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22307 > > MySQL 3.2 is still supported. > > But you should also run Zope in debug mode and see what gets written to the > error log. > > Charlie > -- Jamie O'Keefe www.jamesokeefe.org jokeefe.typepad.com - my personal blog jokeefe.typepad.com/green_politics/ - my political blog jokeefe.typepad.com/nonviolence/ - my blog on nonviolence _______________________________________________ Zope-DB mailing list Zope-DB@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-db