[Python-Dev] Have a big machine and spare time? Here's a possible Python bug. (original) (raw)

Inada Naoki songofacandy at gmail.com
Thu May 23 08:42:38 EDT 2019


  1. perf shows 95% of CPU time is eaten by _PyObject_Free, not kernel space.
  2. This loop is cleary hot: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/51aa35e9e17eef60d04add9619fe2a7eb938358c/Objects/obmalloc.c#L1816-L1819

I can attach the process by gdb and I confirmed many arenas have same nfreepools.

I believe this is not jitter caused from NUMA or something else in cloud.

Inada Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com>



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