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Python randomly exits with Linux OS error -9 or -15

Emile van Sebille emile at fenx.com
Mon Apr 9 09:10:50 EDT 2012 
On 4/9/2012 3:47 AM Alain Ketterlin said...
> Janis<janis.viksne at gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> I have this problem with my script exiting randomly with Linux OS
>> status code -9 (most often) or -15 (also sometimes, but much more
>> rarely).
<snip>
> My guess is that your script hits a limit, e.g., number of open files,
> or stack-size, or... But of course it's only a guess.

You might try monitoring /proc/[pid]/fd and friends to see if it looks 
like you'd expect.  I'd suspect you're holding on to file refs 
preventing their being garbage collected...

Emile
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