[python-win32] Pythonservice.exe running at 100%

[David Rock]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 05:13:30PM +1100, Mark Hammond wrote:
> > Every time I try to run a service on Windows NT4, it always runs at 100%
> > CPU utilization. Why does pythonservice.exe do this and is there any way
> > that I can throttle it back? I have managed to minimize the amount of
> > time that the service app I am running takes, so that it is not a
> > tremendous strain on the system (just a couple seconds) but I would like
> > to manage this better.
> 
> Something is almost certainly wrong with your service.  The test services do
> not exhibit this.  Check that your loops that are supposed to be waiting for
> something actually are :)

Is there any chance that the version of Python and the WIn32 extensions
will be a factor in this? I am currently using Python 2.1.1 from
Python.org with Win32all-145.

I am in the process of downloading 2.2 and win32all-146 to see if it
makes a difference.

-- 
David Rock
david@rock.homelinux.com