Thanks for the thoughts - much appreciated! The threaded super-goat
was indeed the offender. A very aggressive QA tester got us enough of
a pattern to identify the offending module: pyOpenSSL. After looking
at it closely, we found there are problems with its thread handling.
In particular, the G
(Dave) wrote:
8<- description of horrible problem --
Faced with this, I would:
1 - identify the modules that import gc to separate the
sheep from the goats.
2 - do my best to change gc importing goats back to sheep.
3 - amongst the remaining goats, identify the ones
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> Hi folks - wondering if anyone has any pointers on troubleshooting
> garbage collection. My colleagues and I are running into an
> interesting problem:
>
> Intermittently, we get into a situation where the garbage collection
> c
Hi folks - wondering if anyone has any pointers on troubleshooting
garbage collection. My colleagues and I are running into an
interesting problem:
Intermittently, we get into a situation where the garbage collection
code is running in an infinite loop. The data structures within the
garbage col