On 4/9/2012 5:01 AM, Janis wrote: > I have this problem with my script exiting randomly with Linux OS > status code -9 (most often) or -15 (also sometimes, but much more > rarely). As far as I understand -9 corresponds to Bad file descriptor > and -15 Block device required. > > 1) Is there a way how I could find out what exactly causes Python > process to exit? > 2) What could be the reason of Python exiting with these status code? > > The script is a crawler that crawls several web sites to download web > pages and extract information. Most often it exits after having run > for 2 hours and having downloaded ~24 000 files. Some specific web > sites are more affected than others, i.e., there are other instances > of the script running in parallel that download more pages and > complete normally. That could be related to the speed each page is > returned etc. Sounds like an issue with either the filesystem (perhaps you ran out of inodes - entirely possible when running scripts that create tens of thousands of files) or the disk itself (maybe it's dying).
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