Hi all
I wrote a multithreaded script that polls mails from several pop/imap
accounts. To fetch the messages I'm using the getmail classes (
http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ ) , those classes use the poplib for
the real pop transaction.
When I run my script for a few hours cpu usage goes up to 100%,
sometimes even 104% according to 'top' :-) This made our test machine
freeze once. First I thought I maybe didn't stop my threads correctly
after polling an account but I attached a remote debugger and it showed
that threads are stopped ok and that the cpu gets eaten in poplib in the
function "_getline" which states in the description:
---snip---
# Internal: return one line from the server, stripping CRLF.
# This is where all the CPU time of this module is consumed.
# Raise error_proto('-ERR EOF') if the connection is closed.
def _getline(self):
---snip---
So for testing purposes I changed this function and added:
time.sleep(0.0001)
(googling about similar problems with cpu usage yields this time.sleep()
trick)
It now looks ok, cpu usage is at about 30% with a few spikes to 80-90%.
Of course I don't feel cozy about changing a standard library as the
changes will be overwritten by python upgrades.
Did someone else from the list hit a similar problem and maybe has a
better solution?
Thanks for your hints.
Best regards,
Oli Schacher
