Doron Tal added the comment:
We didn't prove this point yet, currently it's merely circumstantial.
The application calls strftime few dozen times each second from different
threads. We spot the stall using another two threads, the first takes a time
stamp before calling a python fu
New submission from Doron Tal :
I've encountered a hung of python process for more than a second. It appears
that the stall happens due to time.strftime call, which internally opens a file
('/etc/localtime'). I think it is best if the GIL would have been released to
allow o
