Re: [Zope] Auto restart (at Zope's own initiative !!!)

29 Jan 2002


      I don't think it has anything to do with C extensions in general (Zope 
has lots of those, and for the most part, we think they work OK).  I 
think it has to do with particular C extensions that are coded 
improperly and thus cause segfaults.  A "usual suspect" in those cases 
that there would be improper memory and/or reference management.

- C

Keith J. Farmer wrote:
...
For what it's worth, something I noticed under (the Win32 version of)
Python 2.1.x is that, in a threaded environment, Python will crash if it
an attempt to load some extensions (my case was a c-extension that
accessed a database).
I suspect that's why Chris is asking those questions.
In particular, I noticed that while this will crash:
# AstroMathTest.py
#
# Tests AstroMath against Python threads
import threading
import AstroMath
import random
BODIES = [2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10]
START_JD = 2448976
N = 1000
class AstroMathTest(threading.Thread):
    def run(self):
        body = random.choice(BODIES)
        end_jd = random.randrange(START_JD + 1, START_JD + 100)
        results = AstroMath.makeQVsop(START_JD, end_jd, N, body)
        print "Period: %s - %s\nBody: %s\nN: %s" % (START_JD, end_jd,
body, N)
        print "Results: %s" % str(results)
if __name__ == '__main__':
    threads = []
    for i in range(3):
        thread = AstroMathTest()
        thread.start()
        threads.append(thread)
    # wait for completion
    for thread in threads:
        thread.join()
    print "All threads completed"
... whereas this will run successfully:
# AstroMathTest-2.py
#
# Tests AstroMath against Python threads
import threading
import random
BODIES = [2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10]
START_JD = 2448976
N = 1000
class AstroMathTest(threading.Thread):
    def run(self):
        import AstroMath
        body = random.choice(BODIES)
        end_jd = random.randrange(START_JD + 1, START_JD + 100)
        results = AstroMath.makeQVsop(START_JD, end_jd, N, body)
        print "Period: %s - %s\nBody: %s\nN: %s" % (START_JD, end_jd,
body, N)
        print "Results: %s" % str(results)
if __name__ == '__main__':
    threads = []
    for i in range(3):
        thread = AstroMathTest()
        thread.start()
        threads.append(thread)
    # wait for completion
    for thread in threads:
        thread.join()
    print "All threads completed"
.. just by changing where the import statement lies.
Is there some way to translate this to how we should write with Zope
external methods in mind?
----------
Keith J. Farmer
kfarmer@thuban.org
http://www.thuban.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris McDonough [mailto:chrism@zope.com]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 15:19
exercising no codepaths that might kick off a relational database 
request or exercise another C extenision?
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