python slowdown after a longish time of running (garbage collector)

[Thomas Jensen]

Michal Vitecek wrote:
>  okay, thank you. it'll be pretty hard to describe it so much in detail,
>  but here it goes:
> 
>     - the server waits on named socket and accepts clients' requests via
>       via stream where each command is a cPickled tuple (command,
>       commandData,)

Do you close the sockets manually or rely on the GC?
I had a similiar problem recently when stress-testing a web-application.
The GC apparently never got around to collecting the sockets, which 
resultet in lots of open sockets.
I don't even know if the GC is supposed to handle sockets, but why not?
Anyway, explicitly .close()'ing the sockets is probably always a good idea.

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