Problem solved: Re: time.sleep(1) sometimes runs for 200 secondsunder windows

[Paul Probert]

Thanks everyone for your help.
It was the "Abouttime.exe" program, a time synch utility. To get the
problem, you have to run it as a service, and possibly it has to have
trouble connecting to its time servers. It would cause time.sleep(1) to
sometimes block for 200 seconds. Not "about" 200 seconds but always
within 199 to 202 seconds. Very strange, but it is good to have the
problem gone.

Enjoy the weekend!

Paul Probert
University of Wisconsin

 

[Magnus Lycka]

Thanks everyone for your help.
It was the "Abouttime.exe" program, a time synch utility. To get the
problem, you have to run it as a service, and possibly it has to have
trouble connecting to its time servers. It would cause time.sleep(1) to
sometimes block for 200 seconds. Not "about" 200 seconds but always
within 199 to 202 seconds. Very strange, but it is good to have the
problem gone.

So did you understand what happened? Was the system call time.time()
just hanging while abouttime.exe was synching time?