[Twisted-Python] Deadlocks when launching processes - how to investigate?
exarkun at twistedmatrix.com
exarkun at twistedmatrix.com
Tue Feb 18 19:07:16 MST 2014
On 18 Feb, 07:29 pm, glyph at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
>
>On Feb 15, 2014, at 5:32 PM, exarkun at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
>>On 15 Feb, 07:58 pm, glyph at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
>>>
>>>The one thing that confused me was that the sample program appeared
>>>to be running the program only once a second, and waiting for it to
>>>complete before running it again.
>>
>>I think it's more like 81 processes once a second and *not* waiting
>>for them to complete before starting over. Notice the lack of yields
>>in key places. I suspect inlineCallbacks has gradually eaten out the
>>part of your brain that recognizes that keyword. ;)
>
>I sort of noted this on the ticket, but I think the idea of using
>KQueue to address this would be great. Is there a similar thing we
>might be able to do on Linux to get rid of the dependence on a SIGCHLD
>handler?
Not that I know of. As far as I know Linux is missing good child
process event notification support.
Jean-Paul
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