[Python-Dev] Discussion related to memory leaks requested (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 20:58:47 EST 2016

On 14 January 2016 at 10:18, Matthew Paulson <paulson at busiq.com> wrote:

Hi Andrew:

These are all good points, and I defer to your experience -- I am new to python internals, but the fact remains that after multiple iterations of our embedded test case, we are seeing continued allocations (DS2015) and growth of the working set (windows task manager). If your are pooling resources on the free list, wouldn't you expect these items to get reused and for things to stabilize after a while? We're not seeing that. I think Victor's suggestion of a very simple test case is probably the best idea. I'll try to put that together in the next few days and if it also demonstrates the problem, then I'll submit it here.

If you want to throw your debugger at it, there's an existing subinterpreter test case in _testembed that should exhibit any Initialize/Finalize leaks: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Programs/_testembed.c#L36

However, if there is one, our existing automated leak monitoring unfortunately wouldn't pick it up, as the embedding tests run in a subprocess rather than the main test process.

Cheers, Nick.

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