On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2012 12:11:58 -0700 > Daniel Farina <dan...@heroku.com> wrote: >> >> Finally, what's especially strange is that I had gone a very long time >> running this exact version of Python, libraries, and application quite >> frequently: it suddenly started cropping up a little while ago (maybe >> a few weeks). > > Do you mean it's a hand-compiled Python? Are you sure you didn't > recompile it / update to a later version recently?
Quite sure. It was vanilla Ubuntu, and then I side-graded it to vanilla ubuntu at -O0. > If you didn't change anything, this may be something unrelated to > Python, such as a hardware problem. Occurs on a smattering of a large number of systems more or less at random. Seems unlikely. > You are right that ma_fill == ma_used should, AFAIK, never happen. > Perhaps you could add conditional debug statements when that condition > happens, to know where it comes from. > > Furthermore, if this is a hand-compiled Python, you could reconfigure > it --with-pydebug, so as to enable more assertions in the interpreter > core (this will make it quite a bit slower too :-)). Yes, this is my next step, although I am going to do a bit more whacking of the interpreter as to pause rather than crash when it encounters this problem. -- fdr _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
