Peter Hansen wrote:
>Are you saying that you believe the time.sleep(1) call is actually
>blocking for 200 seconds? Or just that your loop (and we can only guess
>what it looks like) is the one taking that long?
>
>If the former, try something like putting "print 'before'" and "print
>'after'" before and after the sleep, and observe what happens when you
>run the program. I'm fairly confident in saying there's no chance
>you'll see the "before" sit for 200s before you see the "after" and that
>your problem lies elsewhere, not with time.sleep(1).
>
>If the latter, um, obviously we can't help without more info.
>
>-Peter
>
>
>
Yes, I'm doing this:
.....
oldtime=time.time()
time.sleep(1)
newtime=time.time()
dt=newtime-oldtime
if dt > 2:
print 'dt=',dt,' time=',time.strftime('%Y_%m_%d_%Hh_%Mm_%Ss')
Its happening roughly 4 times a day total on our 20 machines, ie about
once every 5 days on a given machine.
Paul Probert
University of Wisconsin
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