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Garry Hodgson
a colleague of mine has seen an odd problem in some code of ours.
we initially noticed it on webware, but in distilling a test case it seems
to be strictly a python issue. in the real system, it manifests as
webware just locking up, for no apparent reason, until we kill it.
we've also had the python interpreter running webware die on occasion.
it works fine on our desktop linux and windows machines, but fails
on the production hardware. the main difference being that the
production hardware is a dual Xenon machine with
hyperthreading enabled.
has anyone run into problems like this, or have any clues what
the problem might be? we pushed pretty hard on a skeptical
project manager to get python and webware accepted for this
project, and it's embarrassing to have it acting flaky.
i'd really appreciate any insight anyone's got on this. we need
to resolve it quickly. mike's description of the test case follows.
thanks
we initially noticed it on webware, but in distilling a test case it seems
to be strictly a python issue. in the real system, it manifests as
webware just locking up, for no apparent reason, until we kill it.
we've also had the python interpreter running webware die on occasion.
it works fine on our desktop linux and windows machines, but fails
on the production hardware. the main difference being that the
production hardware is a dual Xenon machine with
hyperthreading enabled.
has anyone run into problems like this, or have any clues what
the problem might be? we pushed pretty hard on a skeptical
project manager to get python and webware accepted for this
project, and it's embarrassing to have it acting flaky.
i'd really appreciate any insight anyone's got on this. we need
to resolve it quickly. mike's description of the test case follows.
thanks