Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Zope 2.4 crashes -- possible fix identified, other solutions also suggested

2001-12-20 Thread Matthew T. Kromer
Well, if you want to grab what is probably going to turn in to Python 2.1.2 from CVS, you can get the release21-maint branch from :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/python package python. This already has the important change to ceval.c in it; but I'm not sure that the rest of the changes

Re: [Zope-dev] disabling gc does not necessarily hide memorycorruption

2001-12-20 Thread Matthew T. Kromer
Well the ExtensionClass.h fix I think is completely harmless (assuming you recompile every ExtensionClass based C module) but I'm not convinced it's necessary, either. It's more of an insurance policy -- if every C module plays by the rules and checks the type flags field of the type object

Re: [Zope-dev] disabling gc does not necessarily hide memorycorruption

2001-12-20 Thread Martijn Faassen
Matthew T. Kromer wrote: [snip] Actually, I was kind of hoping Martijn Faassen would pipe up and say I applied the restricted python patches you've already put up on the Zope-2_4-branch, and my problems with ParsedXML went away! since he's one of the folks that did NOT benefit from

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Zope 2.4 crashes -- possible fix identified, other solutions also suggested

2001-12-20 Thread Martijn Faassen
Leonardo Rochael Almeida wrote: On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 13:44, Matthew T. Kromer wrote: Soo... if shutting off GC extends time between crashes for some folks from every 15 minutes to 3 times a day, my advise is to shut off GC. Now I can really confirm that gc.disable() is enough to avoid

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Zope 2.4 crashes -- possible fix identified, other solutions also suggested

2001-12-20 Thread Anthony Baxter
Matthew T. Kromer wrote Anthony Baxter is anticipating a Python 2.1.2 beta real soon now (probably this weekend) so I am going to try to get that into Zope 2.5's binary releases, although we may put out a Zope 2.5 beta 3 first. This will include the necessary Python patches to ceval.c to

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Zope 2.4 crashes -- possible fix identified, other solutions also suggested

2001-12-20 Thread Anthony Baxter
Matthew T. Kromer wrote Well, if you want to grab what is probably going to turn in to Python 2.1.2 from CVS, you can get the release21-maint branch from :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/python package python. I'd _love_ it if people wanted to do this, once the release candidate is