[Zope-Coders] Linux Tests Hanging, ZEO?

[Guido van Rossum]

> You may notice the linux test results have been missing for a while
> now.  They appear to be hanging somewhere before the end of running
> the tests on the Zope HEAD.

Hm.  I just ran the full Zope HEAD tests and they ran to completion.
I watched top while it was going and I didn't see anything unusual.

> Once hung, you end up with a set of processes as in the PS.
> 
> One process of interest was the "-discard [127.0.0.1]".

Are you sure that's related?  How could a test run as chrisw create
a process owned by root?

> Is there a test which is supposed to connect back
> to the machien running the tests on the discard port?

I have no idea what the discard port is.

> If something is erroneously configured to connect to port 9 by
> mistake, and is expecting a response back, it'll wait indefinitely.

I doubt that that's a problem in the Zope test suite.

> Any ideas?

Have you grepped the source for the single digit "9" ? :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)