[issue4732] Object allocation stress leads to segfault on RHEL

Farshad Khoshkhui added the comment: Sorry wrong issue number. The correct one is #4358 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing lis

[issue4732] Object allocation stress leads to segfault on RHEL

Farshad Khoshkhui added the comment: This happens for me on several debian and ubuntu machines with python 2.5 as well as 2.6 as I reported in #571885. I'll try your script and linking with tcmalloc and get back with results. -- nosy: +farshad ___ Py

[issue4732] Object allocation stress leads to segfault on RHEL

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Ok, thanks for the investigation! -- resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue4732] Object allocation stress leads to segfault on RHEL

Andrew added the comment: This problem appears to be specific to RHEL 5, and is not a Python problem. Linking against Google malloc (libtcmalloc) fixes the issue. This bug should be closed. ___ Python tracker

[issue4732] Object allocation stress leads to segfault on RHEL

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I think you should report the bug to Redhat and see what they have to say about it. It may be a bug in the libc of that particular version. In any case I think it is highly inlikely to be a bug in Python itself. ___ Python tr

[issue4732] Object allocation stress leads to segfault on RHEL

Andrew added the comment: Cannot reproduce this on RHEL 4. So far only RHEL 5.x seems to be affected. ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-l

[issue4732] Object allocation stress leads to segfault on RHEL

ebfe added the comment: I can't reproduce the problem here. Python 2.5.2 running on Linux lueg-desktop 2.6.24-22-generic #1 SMP Mon Nov 24 18:32:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux -- nosy: +ebfe ___ Python tracker ___

[issue4732] Object allocation stress leads to segfault on RHEL

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I can't reproduce it under Mandriva Linux on an x86-64 machine. -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker ___

[issue4732] Object allocation stress leads to segfault on RHEL

New submission from Andrew Gillis : Allocating large numbers of strings objects has been causing Python to segfault on RHEL. Originally detected when sending large data structures over XMLRPC, but also happens when appending large numbers of small strings to a list and calling join in the list.