[Zope] Hanging Python Threads

[Ryan T. Bard]

That rings a bell. Time to hunt it down...

Thanks a lot!

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Dieter Maurer said:
> Ryan T. Bard wrote at 2004-1-28 11:31 -0500:
>>I have a problem where I periodically get a python thread that
>> never dies by itself,
>
> I see this occasionally. Usually, the process is waiting for
> some network response (which does not come).
>
>> ...
>>I had found a post (or an archive on the zope.org site) a few
>> weeks ago about a way to debug python threads or to watch a live
>> traceback of threads through some debugging method in order to
>> debug products, but I can't find it again now.
>
> Hopefully, you work under Linux/Unix?
>
> Then, they is a HowTo about how to analyse a "spinning Zope".
> It contains (I think) advice how to use the GDB (GNU debugger)
> to analyse a Zope process that got out of bounds.
>
> --
> Dieter