2009/12/16 ObsessiveMathsFreak <[email protected]>: > I found the problem. It was a problem with python socket library. > Apparently the socket wasn't being buffered properly, or at least that's > my understanding. > > The problem was in the socket.py library, found in Ubuntu 9.10 under > /usr/lib/python2.6/socket.py > > At around line 500, replace this line > for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM): > with this on > for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM): > > Apparently now the socket will be properly buffered. With the old line, > wiki login took about 90 seconds for me. Now it takes less than a second. > > Hope that helps someone else. >
While it might be interesting for some pywikipedia users, I think that this error should be reported upstream. Can you please do it, explaining more thoroughly what the problem was and how you diagnosed it? -- Nicolas Dumazet — NicDumZ _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l
