interpreter crashes

[Paul Rubin]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:
> All crashes I've ever seen were with other libraries, or when
> I was trying to wrap a DLL with calldll under Windows.  Never 
> seen a crash yet under Linux.  Python is _solid_.

This was Python 2.1.1 under Redhat 7.1.  I am 100% positive I wasn't
using any 3rd party extension modules.  However I had some standard
library modules loaded--I'm not sure which ones.  Also, I had been
repeatedly reloading my own Python modules, which has always seemed
like a flaky process to me.

> Run a separate task which checks the status of the Python app from
> time to time (maybe with cron?).  Kill and restart as necessary.

Good idea, I guess.  Although the app needs to keep some persistent
data structures in ram (for security reasons it can NOT checkpoint
them to disk, so don't bother suggesting that).  Maybe I have to use
the shm module or something like that.

Thanks