Re: Python randomly exits with Linux OS error -9 or -15

2012-04-10 Thread Janis
I have confirmed that the signal involved is SIGKILL and, yes, apparently OS is simply running out of memory. Thank you all, again! Best Regards, Janis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python randomly exits with Linux OS error -9 or -15

2012-04-10 Thread Paul Rubin
Janis janis.vik...@gmail.com writes: I have confirmed that the signal involved is SIGKILL and, yes, apparently OS is simply running out of memory. This is the notorious OOM killer, sigh. There are some links from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OOM_Killer --

Python randomly exits with Linux OS error -9 or -15

2012-04-09 Thread Janis
Hello! I have this problem with my script exiting randomly with Linux OS status code -9 (most often) or -15 (also sometimes, but much more rarely). As far as I understand -9 corresponds to Bad file descriptor and -15 Block device required. 1) Is there a way how I could find out what exactly

Re: Python randomly exits with Linux OS error -9 or -15

2012-04-09 Thread Andrew Berg
On 4/9/2012 5:01 AM, Janis wrote: I have this problem with my script exiting randomly with Linux OS status code -9 (most often) or -15 (also sometimes, but much more rarely). As far as I understand -9 corresponds to Bad file descriptor and -15 Block device required. 1) Is there a way how I

Re: Python randomly exits with Linux OS error -9 or -15

2012-04-09 Thread Alain Ketterlin
Janis janis.vik...@gmail.com writes: I have this problem with my script exiting randomly with Linux OS status code -9 (most often) or -15 (also sometimes, but much more rarely). As far as I understand -9 corresponds to Bad file descriptor and -15 Block device required. How do you get -9 and

Re: Python randomly exits with Linux OS error -9 or -15

2012-04-09 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 4/9/2012 3:47 AM Alain Ketterlin said... Janisjanis.vik...@gmail.com writes: I have this problem with my script exiting randomly with Linux OS status code -9 (most often) or -15 (also sometimes, but much more rarely). snip My guess is that your script hits a limit, e.g., number of open

Re: Python randomly exits with Linux OS error -9 or -15

2012-04-09 Thread Adam Skutt
On Apr 9, 6:47 am, Alain Ketterlin al...@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr wrote: Janis janis.vik...@gmail.com writes: I have this problem with my script exiting randomly with Linux OS status code -9 (most often) or -15 (also sometimes, but much more rarely). As far as I understand -9 corresponds to

Re: Python randomly exits with Linux OS error -9 or -15

2012-04-09 Thread Adam Skutt
On Apr 9, 6:01 am, Janis janis.vik...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! I have this problem with my script exiting randomly with Linux OS status code -9 (most often) or -15 (also sometimes, but much more rarely). As far as I understand -9 corresponds to Bad file descriptor and -15 Block device

Re: Python randomly exits with Linux OS error -9 or -15

2012-04-09 Thread Janis
Thank you all for the help! I will need to think a bit about the other suggestions. But, Alan, as to this: How do you get -9 and -15? Exit status is supposed to be between 0 and 127. I have the following code that has caught these: p = subprocess.Popen([Config.PYTHON_EXE,'Load.py',%s %

Re: Python randomly exits with Linux OS error -9 or -15

2012-04-09 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
On 09/04/2012 11:01, Janis wrote: cut weird exit codes My experience is that these kind of behaviors are observed when (from most to least likeliness): - Your kernel barfs on a limit, e.g. space/inodes/processes/memory/etc. - You have a linked library mismatch - You have bit rot on your system

Re: Python randomly exits with Linux OS error -9 or -15

2012-04-09 Thread Dan Stromberg
You might try running your Python process with: strace -f -s 1024 -o /tmp/script.strace python /path/to/script.py Then you (perhaps with a C programmer) can likely track down what happened right before the crash by examining the system call tracer near the end of the file.

Re: Python randomly exits with Linux OS error -9 or -15

2012-04-09 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 09Apr2012 12:02, Janis janis.vik...@gmail.com wrote: | Thank you all for the help! I will need to think a bit about the other | suggestions. | | But, Alan, as to this: | How do you get -9 and -15? Exit status is supposed to be between 0 and | 127. | | I have the following code that has