ValueError: filedescriptor out of range in select()

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Mar 17, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Laszlo Nagy wrote:

> This is a long running process, written in Python. Only standard lib  
> is used. This process accepts connections on TCP sockets, read/write  
> data.
>
> After about one day, it starts throwing this when I try to connect:
>
> 2009-03-17 09:49:50,096 INFO .accesspoint0 ('127.0.0.1', 55510)  
> connecting
> 2009-03-17 09:49:50,097 ERROR .accesspoint0 Traceback (most recent  
> call last):
> File "/usr/local/www/vhosts/shopzeus.com/fantasy/sorb/accesspoints/ 
> srvtcp.py", line 34, in handle_request
>   t = sorb.endpoint.SocketEndpoint(conn,self.router)
> File "/usr/local/www/vhosts/shopzeus.com/fantasy/sorb/endpoint.py",  
> line 304, in __init__
>   StreamEndpoint.__init__(self,router)
> File "/usr/local/www/vhosts/shopzeus.com/fantasy/sorb/endpoint.py",  
> line 133, in __init__
>   self.format = self.read_str() # determine remote format
> File "/usr/local/www/vhosts/shopzeus.com/fantasy/sorb/endpoint.py",  
> line 236, in read_str
>   size = self.read_long()
> File "/usr/local/www/vhosts/shopzeus.com/fantasy/sorb/endpoint.py",  
> line 222, in read_long
>   return struct.unpack(">q",self.read_data(8))[0]
> File "/usr/local/www/vhosts/shopzeus.com/fantasy/sorb/endpoint.py",  
> line 344, in read_data
>   ready = select.select([fd], [], [], 0.2)
> ValueError: filedescriptor out of range in select()


Hi Laszlo,
Just a hunch -- are you leaking file handles and eventually running out?