[Python-Dev] Detect a memory leak (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz@pythoncraft.com
Fri, 4 Jul 2003 13:41:53 -0400

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003, Antonio Beamud Montero wrote:

I have a problem with memory leaks and I don't know how to solve it. My app runs like a daemon, and do a intensive xmlrpc use. The problem is than is memory grows and grows and I can't see where the problem is. Al the objects in work space maintains the ref counting in the same values all the time. Can anybody tell me a way to debug this situation? The python version is the SuSE 8.0 version (2.2) compiled with GCC 2.95.3.

It's quite likely the problem is fragmenting memory. Try testing with Python 2.3b2, which uses PyMalloc instead.

For further discussion of this issue, please go to comp.lang.python; this is off-topic for this list.

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