Monthly Archives: August 2010

Webcam image

UPDATE: So, Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 has been installed, and the image quality is quite good. Though, I think I need to clean the window it shoots through. So, no more green halo from the Xbox camera. All and all, very happy. Probably have a brief review forthcoming.

ORIGINAL: Today I changed my webcam to an Xbox Live Camera (the ones for the Xbox360). The image is better than my old Intel CS430, but not great. Also, there’s a nice green ring in the image since it’s reflected from the window.

The solution is temporary as I’ll be receiving a Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 this coming Tuesday that will have an even better image, and not have the silly ring.

So, please be patient. Also, I hope to be adding access to a higher resolution webcam image once the new camera arrives. Though, I’m not sure how high, or how often I want to update it since I don’t want my net connection to be taxed too heavily.

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420 Too many open files

After years of Plone/Zope running on a 10.5 web server, this last weekend I started seeing the zope logs filling with errors saying “[420] Too many open files”. One, I hadn’t seen this before, and two, I couldn’t figure out why it was happening after years of solid use.

So, looking around online, it appeared that 10.5 just set the max files open per user to an awfully small limit (especially in the server version)… 256 files per user! Since I use a zeo/client setup, and use FileSystemStorage for storing files outside the zodb, I easily had this many files open. Again, why is this just happening after years?

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