[Python-Dev] Mysterious Python pyc file corruption problems (original) (raw)

Gregory P. Smith greg at krypto.org
Thu May 16 22:37:38 CEST 2013

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On May 16, 2013, at 09:44 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:

>Is it happening on the same machines? If so, perhaps a daemon to monitor >those files and then scream and shout when one changes. Might help track >down what's going on at the time. (Yeah, that does sound like saying >'inotify' but with more words...) No, it's all different kinds of machines, at different times, on different files. So far, there's no rhyme or reason to the corruptions that I can tell. We're trying to instrument things to collect more data when these failures do occur.

Even on machines with ECC ram and reliable storage, not owned by l33t gam0rzs weenies who overclock things?

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