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Dreamhost, kernel 2.6, FCGI and threads

By automatthias

My Dreamhost server got rebooted yesterday. After the reboot, I’ve noticed two things:

  1. Kernel 2.6
  2. My Django application down. I’m not sure if it was the 2.6 kernel that caused the problem. It could be a coincidence.

I’ve spent a whole day investigating the problem. It turned out that Python couldn’t make a new thread. Just like Grimboy, I’ve changed “threaded” method into “prefork” in dispatch.fcgi and got my site up and running.

FCGI is pretty difficult to debug, I must say. To get a debug message, I needed to run a Perl script, from which a Python script was called, with stderr redirected to a file.

This entry was posted on 2006-12-26 at 03:31 and is filed under Django, Dreamhost, Python. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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