[Python-Dev] Daily reference leaks (12de1ad1cee8): sum=6024 (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Jan 18 17:42:15 CET 2012

On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:39:42 -0500 Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> > > We could then maybe try to get some > > people pound on this at the PyCon sprints. Otherwise I'm reluctant to > skip > > it since they are legitimate leaks that should be get fixed. > > Well it's the old well-known issue with pseudo-"permanent" references > not being appropriately managed/cleaned up. Which only shows when > calling PyInitialize/PyFinalize multiple times, or using > sub-interpreters. >

Could we tweak the report to somehow ignore the permanent refcounts for just this test? If not then we might as well leave it out since that number will never hit 0.

I can't think of any way to specifically ignore them (if we knew where they are we could just fix the refleaks :-)).

Regards

Antoine.

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