[Flow-tools] Contact to pyflowtools developer

[Paul P Komkoff Jr]

Replying to Sebastian Ganschow:

Hi, Sebastian!

> > There are number of fixes for threading and reference counting issues.
> 
> The tool I wrote uses flowtools to import the netflow data collected by our
> routers into a database. As you know that is a large bulk of data and many
> files. Because I'm reading all the files for one month the program will crash
> after a certain time with the error message that there are to many open files.
> 
> In my opinion there is something wrong with the FlowSet because the objects
> aren't destroyed so the filehandles wouldn't be closed.

This probably goes to reference counting issues. Can you try my
patches on your workload? If they won't help you, then I'll try to
find other causes.

> I saw a patch in your repository, that fixed crashes in case of ftio failures
> and another patch which corrects a wrong usage of the reference counter.
> Would these patches solve my problem?

Thanks!

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