Message 61651 - Python tracker

➜

This issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub, and is currently read-only.
For more information, see the GitHub FAQs in the Python's Developer Guide.

Author	rich
Recipients	christian.heimes, effbot, rich
Date	2008-01-24.19:25:37
SpamBayes Score	0.018837396
Marked as misclassified	No
Message-id	<1201202739.11.0.985062722857.issue1389051@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
In-reply-to

Content
I think I was just bitten by the non-SSL version of this bug on Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863) on Mac OS 10.5. It manifested itself as a "malloc error: can't allocate region" while downloading a message using imaplib. As suggested by effbot I changed "data = self._sock.recv(recv_size)" to "data = self._sock.recv(min(recv_size, 16384))" in both places that line appears in socket.py. Making that change fixed the problem for me. Note that http://bugs.python.org/issue1092502 seems to be a duplicate of this issue. That issue contains a slightly different fix proposed by a_lauer, which I've not tried.

I think I was just bitten by the non-SSL version of this bug on Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863) on Mac 
OS 10.5. It manifested itself as a "malloc error: can't allocate region" while downloading a 
message using imaplib.

As suggested by effbot I changed "data = self._sock.recv(recv_size)" to "data = 
self._sock.recv(min(recv_size, 16384))" in both places that line appears in socket.py. Making 
that change fixed the problem for me.

Note that http://bugs.python.org/issue1092502 seems to be a duplicate of this issue. That issue 
contains a slightly different fix proposed by a_lauer, which I've not tried.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-01-24 19:25:39	rich	set	spambayes_score: 0.0188374 -> 0.018837396 recipients: + rich, effbot, christian.heimes
2008-01-24 19:25:39	rich	set	spambayes_score: 0.0188374 -> 0.0188374 messageid: <1201202739.11.0.985062722857.issue1389051@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-01-24 19:25:38	rich	link	issue1389051 messages
2008-01-24 19:25:37	rich	create