Re: Threading problem when many sockets open

2007-08-25 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Philip Zigoris wrote: > ... and the server > would go into a state where the master thread repeatedly polled the > socket and printed an error. Is that because it cannot create a new socket to accept the connection on? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/py

Threading problem when many sockets open

2007-08-11 Thread Philip Zigoris
Hi all, I have written a socket based service in python and under fairly heavy traffic it performs really well. But i have encountered the following problem: when the system runs out of file descriptors, it seems to stop switching control between threads. Here is some more detail: The system ha