[Christian Theune]
> It looks like we have been bitten by a bug in a C-Module for MySQL
> access. Sometimes it led to a segfault, a halt, or the hang. We can't
> reproduce it after switching that C-Module anymore.
Any theory for how that could make all four threads appear to be blocked on
an attempt to get the commit lock? Bad code at the C level can cause any
kind of "impossible" behavior, but there's usually a more-or-less clear
connection to the impossible symptom observed. Without such a connection,
it remains plausible that, e.g., some _other_ bad C-level code is really at
fault, and switching an irrelevant bit of C code just happened to mask it
for the time being.
> I really hate C-Modules for Python right now.
They're no worse than C code written for other purposes. I just noticed
that doing a Google search on
mysql segfault
gives over 200000 hits. That's about average for C code <wink>.
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