On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:31 PM, David M Chess <ch...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > We have a system running Python 2.6.6 under RHEL 6.1. A bunch of processes > spend most of their time sitting in a BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer waiting for > requests. > > Last night an update pushed out via xcat whimsically restarted all of the > network interfaces, and at least some of our processes died with bus errors > (i.e. no errors or exceptions reflected up to the Python level, just a > crash). > > This is just my initial looking into this. Seeking opinions of the form, > say: > > Yeah, that happens, don't reset the network interfaces. > Yeah, that happens, and you can prevent the crash by doing X in your OS. > Yeah, that happens, and you can prevent the crash by doing X in your Python > code. > That wouldn't happen if you upgraded S to version V. > That sounds like a new bug and/or more information is needed; please provide > copious details including at least X, Y, and Z. > > Any thoughts or advice greatly appreciated. >
Never seen this happen. Does it matter if your listening socket is bound to all interfaces v/s bound to a specific interface? From a cursory look at the source, SocketServer.TCPServer (which BaseHTTPServer is derived from) simply does a select, followed by an accept. Do any other server applications crash as well? -- regards, kushal -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
