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Gevent monkey patching - OverflowError


I tried to run my Flask project with gevent on Python3.7 on Raspberry Pi with gevent.monkey.patch_all() on the first line. But it ended up with this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "src/gevent/_hub_local.py", line 71, in gevent._gevent_c_hub_local.get_hub
   File "src/gevent/_hub_local.py", line 80, in gevent._gevent_c_hub_local.get_hub_noargs
   File "/home/pi/server/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/gevent/hub.py", line 445, in __init__
     self.loop = self.loop_class(flags=loop, default=default) # pylint:disable=not-callable
   File "/home/pi/server/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/gevent/hub.py", line 459, in loop_class
     return GEVENT_CONFIG.loop
   File "/home/pi/server/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/gevent/_config.py", line 50, in getter
     return self.settings[setting_name].get()
   File "/home/pi/server/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/gevent/_config.py", line 146, in get
     self.value = self.validate(self._default())
   File "/home/pi/server/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/gevent/_config.py", line 248, in validate
     return self._import_one_of([self.shortname_map.get(x, x) for x in value])
   File "/home/pi/server/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/gevent/_config.py", line 219, in _import_one_of
     return self._import_one(item)
   File "/home/pi/server/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/gevent/_config.py", line 237, in _import_one
     module = importlib.import_module(module)
   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
     return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _gcd_import
   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 980, in _find_and_load
   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 149, in __enter__
   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 88, in acquire
   File "src/gevent/_semaphore.py", line 273, in gevent._gevent_c_semaphore.Semaphore.__enter__
   File "src/gevent/_semaphore.py", line 274, in gevent._gevent_c_semaphore.Semaphore.__enter__
   File "src/gevent/_semaphore.py", line 175, in gevent._gevent_c_semaphore.Semaphore.acquire
   File "/home/pi/server/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/gevent/thread.py", line 121, in acquire
     acquired = BoundedSemaphore.acquire(self, blocking, timeout)
   File "src/gevent/_semaphore.py", line 175, in gevent._gevent_c_semaphore.Semaphore.acquire
   File "src/gevent/_semaphore.py", line 200, in gevent._gevent_c_semaphore.Semaphore.acquire
 OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C long

On my PC (Python3.8), where is everything working OK, I am getting this warning:

init.py:1: MonkeyPatchWarning: Monkey-patching ssl after ssl has already been imported may lead to errors, including RecursionError on Python 3.6. It may also silently lead to incorrect behaviour on Python 3.7. Please monkey-patch earlier. See https://github.com/gevent/gevent/issues/1016. Modules that had direct imports (NOT patched): ['urllib3.util (/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/urllib3/util/__init__.py)', 'urllib3.util.ssl_ (/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py)'].

I need to have patch monkey, because when I remove it, everything else is working well, but emitted sockets from external threads are stacking and buffering and arriving to JavaScript handlers after long time.

My versions of modules:

Flask==1.1.2
Flask-SocketIO==5.0.1
python-engineio==4.0.0
python-socketio==5.04
gevent==20.12.1
gevent-websocket==0.10.1

Anyone knows, how can I solve this issue?

Thanks.


Solution

  • The problem was that I was running 32bit instead of 64bit Python3 on RPi.