[Setup] babble.client, babble.server

[Jan-Carel Brand]

Op Do, 2011-07-14 om 09:09 +0200 skryf Hannes Fremann:
> Hi JC,
> 
> thanks for the info and sorry for my late response.
> Because i'm not very familar with zope/plone i need some help howto
> reinstall the babble client after modifying the timeout in
> babble/client/tool.py. It seems that bin/buildout will not recompile the
> sources if the sources are already compiled, removing the egg and
> starting bin/buildout will download the original sources and compile it,
> without my modification -tried bin/buildout with option -No but this
> seems that this is also not he solution.
> Can you pls. advise in a short mail howto resinstall the modified
> sources and also howto setup the server part on a separate Zope Server ?

Hi Hannes,

read the section "Development eggs" in this page below, it will explain
what you need to do.

http://plone.org/documentation/manual/developer-manual/managing-projects-with-buildout/installing-a-third-party-product

Regards
JC



> On Fr, 2011-07-08 at 10:49 +0200, Jan-Carel Brand wrote:
> > Hi Hannes
> > 
> > > Hello ,
> > > 
> > > i've successfully installed the babble.client, babble.server product on
> > > my plone 4.0.7 instance using the corresponding eggs in the buildout.cfg.
> > > Everything works fine so far but from time to time i see the lots of
> > > entries like this my instance.log file:
> > > 
> > > 2011-07-07T15:54:58 ERROR babble.client/browser/chat.py initialize:
> > > timeout error for  hg at automatx.de
> > > ...
> > > 2011-07-07T15:55:13 ERROR babble.client/utils.py: Socket error from
> > > get_online_contacts: server.getOnlineUsers: timed out
> > > Is the chatserver running?
> > > ...
> > > 2011-07-07T15:55:23 ERROR babble.client/utils.py: Socket error from
> > > get_online_contacts: server.getOnlineUsers: timed out
> > > Is the chatserver running?
> > > ...
> > > 2011-07-07T15:59:39 ERROR babble.client/browser/chat.py poll: timeout
> > > error for  hg at automatx.de
> > > 
> > > During this phase a "Connection refused" line appears inside the
> > > babble.client window. Yesterday the phase took about 10 minutes after
> > > that everything was ok again.
> > > 
> > > Today i found an additional hint in the instance.log:
> > > 
> > > 2011-07-07T15:55:53 ERROR Zope.SiteErrorLog 1310046953.640.309126118049
> > > https://automat.utfs.org/Plone/@@babblechat/send_message
> > > Traceback (innermost last):
> > >  Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 127, in publish
> > >  Module ZPublisher.mapply, line 77, in mapply
> > >  Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 47, in call_object
> > >  Module babble.client.browser.chat, line 188, in send_message
> > >  Module xmlrpclib, line 1199, in __call__
> > >  Module xmlrpclib, line 1489, in __request
> > >  Module xmlrpclib, line 1237, in request
> > >  Module babble.client.tool, line 24, in getreply
> > >  Module httplib, line 990, in getresponse
> > >  Module httplib, line 391, in begin
> > >  Module httplib, line 349, in _read_status
> > >  Module socket, line 427, in readline
> > > timeout: timed out
> > > 
> > > Any help to solve this "timeout" problem is appreciated.
> > 
> > If you look in babble/client/tool.py there is a class
> > QuickTimeoutTransport that sets a timeout of 5 seconds.
> > 
> > This is the time after which XMLRPC calls (between the client and
> > server) will timeout.
> > 
> > These socket errors you are getting above appear to be timeouts. Why the
> > calls are taking longer than 5 seconds I don't know.
> > 
> > It can be due to latency, i.e whether you are running the client and
> > server on the same or remote machines. 
> > 
> > It could also be that the chat.server is locked or busy and cannot serve
> > the XMLRPC calls within 5 seconds.
> > 
> > See if there are any conflict errors stemming from operations in
> > babble.server.
> > 
> > To try and solve that, you can run the chat server on a completely
> > separate Zope server with it's own ZODB, thereby reducing the load on
> > that ZODB.
> > 
> > You can also try to increase this timeout number to 10 or something else
> > and see if it helps, and you if you wanted to help the rest of us out,
> > you could make this timeout variable user-configurable via the
> > portal_chat tool.
> > 
> > Regards
> > JC
> > 
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