We have a system running Python 2.6.6 under RHEL 6.1. A bunch of processes spend most of their time sitting in a BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer waiting for requests.
Last night an update pushed out via xcat whimsically restarted all of the network interfaces, and at least some of our processes died with bus errors (i.e. no errors or exceptions reflected up to the Python level, just a crash). This is just my initial looking into this. Seeking opinions of the form, say: Yeah, that happens, don't reset the network interfaces. Yeah, that happens, and you can prevent the crash by doing X in your OS. Yeah, that happens, and you can prevent the crash by doing X in your Python code. That wouldn't happen if you upgraded S to version V. That sounds like a new bug and/or more information is needed; please provide copious details including at least X, Y, and Z. Any thoughts or advice greatly appreciated. DC David M. Chess IBM Watson Research Center
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