A ZopeProduct for Linux systems to restart a Zope server when it deadlocks or uses too much memory. Has the potential to email on restart.
http://zope.org/Members/mcdonc/Products/AutoLance
Zope can use a lot of memory, and has the following weakness, at least on unix: if it grows to hit your memory limit, it may hang. You may see MemoryError? or other errors in the event.log when this happens. This product may be useful to improve reliability in this case, by preemptively restarting zope before it gets large enough to cause trouble.
The deadlock issue is something else.
Issues
- at least with a zope 2.7 ZEO client, it doesn't restart, just kills it
- I'm not seeing any auto lance log messages
See also MonitorScript?.