[Zope-dev] Signal 11 restarts: I blame py_malloc

[Chris Withers]

> Andy Dustman wrote:
>  > Folks, I have seen this too, and apparently it is not just Zope.
>  > Someone wrote to me awhile back saying the MySQLdb-0.9.0 would dump
>  >  core with Python-2.1.1 when compiled with the new py_malloc code
>  > turned on. I was able to reproduce this but not isolate the
>  > problem, except that it occurred during PyObject_GetItem().
> 
> Well, I recompiled Python 2.1.1 with py_malloc turned off. Then I 
> recompiled Zope and ZPatterns. (I don't know whether I really needed to 
> recompile Zope and ZPatterns.)
> 
> Result: no signal 11 crashes in 36 hours. I was getting one at least 
> every couple of hours before, often more frequently, depending on the 
> system load. Zope is now back to it usual stable self.

Sounds like one for the Python bug tracker...

Chris