Message 335344 - Python tracker

Message335344

Author	vstinner
Recipients	pablogsal, vstinner, xtreak
Date	2019-02-12.18:46:48
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Message-id	<1549997208.24.0.0423055962824.issue35961@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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It's impressive and scary that such 13 years old bug only show up today... I modified the GC threshold in the site module with this patch: diff --git a/Lib/site.py b/Lib/site.py index ad1146332b..68cdf105b1 100644 --- a/Lib/site.py +++ b/Lib/site.py @@ -557,6 +557,10 @@ def main(): This function is called automatically when this module is imported, unless the python interpreter was started with the -S flag. """ + import gc, random + n = random.randint(5, 100) + gc.set_threshold(n) + global ENABLE_USER_SITE orig_path = sys.path[:] Running the test suite with this patch doesn't catch the bug :-( $ ./python -m test -j0 -r -u all,-gui

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It's impressive *and* scary that such 13 years old bug only show up today...

I modified the GC threshold in the site module with this patch:

diff --git a/Lib/site.py b/Lib/site.py
index ad1146332b..68cdf105b1 100644
--- a/Lib/site.py
+++ b/Lib/site.py
@@ -557,6 +557,10 @@ def main():
     This function is called automatically when this module is imported,
     unless the python interpreter was started with the -S flag.
     """
+    import gc, random
+    n = random.randint(5, 100)
+    gc.set_threshold(n)
+
     global ENABLE_USER_SITE
 
     orig_path = sys.path[:]


Running the test suite with this patch doesn't catch the bug :-(

$ ./python -m test -j0 -r -u all,-gui

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Date	User	Action	Args
2019-02-12 18:46:48	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, pablogsal, xtreak
2019-02-12 18:46:48	vstinner	set	messageid: <1549997208.24.0.0423055962824.issue35961@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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2019-02-12 18:46:48	vstinner	create