Paul Probert wrote: > Thanks everyone for your help. > It was the "Abouttime.exe" program, a time synch utility. To get the > problem, you have to run it as a service, and possibly it has to have > trouble connecting to its time servers. It would cause time.sleep(1) to > sometimes block for 200 seconds. Not "about" 200 seconds but always > within 199 to 202 seconds. Very strange, but it is good to have the > problem gone.
So did you understand what happened? Was the system call time.time() just hanging while abouttime.exe was synching time? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list