urllib leaves connections/sockets waiting. BIG problem!!!

[Jonathan Gardner]

On Mar 24, 6:57 am, binaryj <coolman.gu... at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi i am using urllib2 to do some automated web thing.
> basically i hit on sites and check the price what they are offering
> for their product and then decide if i want to lower or increase my
> pricing.so in short i have to hit hundreds of sites!!!!!
>
> for the problem:
> =============
> i run 20 threads all do the same stuff. (hit and run :) )
> after around 10-15 hits(per thread) hits the thread does nothing. it
> freezes. slowely but STEADILY all the threads end up with the same
> fate :(
>
> i did some netstat and found out that the connecton(sockets) the
> program had opened are waiting the CLOSE_WAIT state !!
>
> netstat -t
> tcp        1      0 192.168.1.2:4882        host-blabla:www
> CLOSE_WAIT
> tcp        1      0 192.168.1.2:4884        host-blabla:www
> CLOSE_WAIT
> tcp        1      0 192.168.1.2:4375        host-blabla:www
> CLOSE_WAIT
>
> OUTPUT OF PROGRAM:
> THREAD: #Thread-2 getting price from webi-d  7511975 DONE !!!
> THREAD: #Thread-1 getting price from webi-d  4449152 DONE !!!
> THREAD: #Thread-2 getting price from webi-d  7466091 DONE !!!
> THREAD: #Thread-1 getting price from webi-d  8641914 DONE !!!
> THREAD: #Thread-2 getting price from webi-d  7745289 DONE !!!
> THREAD: #Thread-1 getting price from webi-d  6032442 DONE !!!
> THREAD: #Thread-2 getting price from webi-d  8149873 DONE !!!
> no-price-on-page error
> THREAD: #Thread-1 getting price from webi-d  5842934 DONE !!!
> no-price-on-page error
> THREAD: #Thread-2 getting price from webi-d  3385778 DONE !!!
> THREAD: #Thread-1 getting price from webi-d  4610122 DONE !!!
> THREAD: #Thread-2 getting price from webi-d  8641536 DONE !!!
> THREAD: #Thread-1 getting price from webi-d  4219935 DONE !!!
> ---------and thats it, it freezes. i have waited 1hr the sockets have
> not changed their states! :(
>
> please help :)

I think we'll need more details before being able to assess what is
wrong. Can you supply some sample code that has the same bug?