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After running for a number of hours on Linux, my Python 2.6 program that uses urllib2, httplib and threads, starts raising this error for every request:
<class 'urllib2.URLError'> URLError(gaierror(-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution'),)
If I restart the program it starts working again. My guess is some kind of resource exhaustion but I don’t know how to check for it. How do I diagnose and fix the problem?
This was caused by a library’s failure to close connections, leading to a large number of connections stuck in a CLOSE_WAIT state. Eventually this causes the ‘Temporary failure in name resolution’ error due to resource exhaustion.