Re: Troubleshooting garbage collection issues

2007-11-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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

Re: Troubleshooting garbage collection issues

2007-11-18 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
(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

Re: Troubleshooting garbage collection issues

2007-11-18 Thread Rhamphoryncus
On Nov 17, 10:34 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Troubleshooting garbage collection issues

2007-11-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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