From: Ian B. <ia...@co...> - 2004-10-18 16:36:02
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James R. Phillips wrote: > I have been experiencing times when my Webware site > at http://zunzun.com will simply stop running, cause > unknown. Investigation to date shows that there is some > thread problem, which I would like to discuss. > > Below is a simple Python program to test multithreading. > This program runs smoothly and quickly on my home > Windows XP computer as expected. On the Linux server > where my site resides, it runs slowly and jerkily, > finally ending with the message "Killed". I would > like to ask that others please try this program and > see how it runs on their computers, this may be why > people occasionally report unexplainable WebKit site > applications stopping. I tried it on a couple systems. Just fine on FreeBSD. I did encounter a problem on my home box, where it segfaulted after creating thread 7314. However, rerunning the program didn't duplicate the effect. It's a Debian unstable system, uname -a: Linux lothlorien 2.6.5 #3 Sun May 9 21:43:44 CDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux And I did it under python 2.3.4. It happens to be under high CPU load at the moment, as I'm transcoding a bunch of oggs into mp3s; that might somehow effect things. I also tried the program on w4py, another Debian system, but had no problems. Whatever the issue, it may not be consistently triggered by this program. -- Ian Bicking / ia...@co... / http://blog.ianbicking.org |