[issue19432] test_multiprocessing_fork failures

2013-10-29 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: I've seen the failure very often, without any particular load. Now I noticed that during test_tools there were several ksoftirqd processes consuming 20% CPU on 4 cores. That seemed unusual to me, so I followed the advice of a certain MIT koan and rebooted. test_m

[issue19432] test_multiprocessing_fork failures

2013-10-29 Thread Richard Oudkerk
Richard Oudkerk added the comment: This is a test of threading.Barrier rather than anything implemented directly by multiprocessing. Tests which involve timeouts tend to be a bit flaky. Increasing the length of timeouts usually helps, but makes the tests take even longer. How often have you

[issue19432] test_multiprocessing_fork failures

2013-10-29 Thread Stefan Krah
Stefan Krah added the comment: The issue is probably different from #19227, since it already occurs with 4e79c3ae8a12. -- components: +Extension Modules nosy: +sbt stage: -> needs patch type: -> behavior versions: +Python 3.3, Python 3.4 ___ Python

[issue19432] test_multiprocessing_fork failures

2013-10-29 Thread Stefan Krah
New submission from Stefan Krah: I'm getting the following test_multiprocessing_fork failures on Debian Wheezy. Perhaps this is related to #19227: test_default_timeout (test.test_multiprocessing_fork.WithThreadsTestBarrier) ... Exception in thread Thread-344: Traceback (most recent call last)