[Twisted-Python] Scalability of an rss-aggregator

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 09:12:41AM +0200, Valentino Volonghi aka Dialtone wrote:
> Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> 
> >But the traceback you posted from the deferred chain was from the guts of
> >feedparser...
> > 
> >
> Looking at strace output it seems more like Twisted-related... Here is 
> the output:
> 
[...]
> select(726, [4 13 17 18 23 26 28 31 39 40 42 44 45 47 49 50 51 52 55 58 
[...]
> 665 666 667 670 671 675 676 677 678 681 683 684 687 715 725], [], [], NULL
> 
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> Here it lock, but now, since I'm using strace, it won't restart after 
> Ctrl+C.
> 
> As I said before... The download of _ALL_ feeds has already finished 
> when twisted locks,

But then why is there still a huge number of file descriptors in the select
call?  Something is definitely very odd... :/

-Andrew.