Hi, as I discovered, there was a bug in those scripts when run under Python 2.3 - they leaked socket descriptors and so sooner or later hit a OS configured limit of maximum open file descriptors. I think I fixed that problem in the newest versions, so if you use them, you better fetch new versions of them.
This only applies if you use them with Python 2.3, as the bug was in the socketpair hack. Python 2.4 has it's own socketpair function and so won't use the buggy code. bye, Georg
