[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-494320 ] Memory leaks in 2.2c1?

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Bugs item #494320, was opened at 2001-12-17 13:02
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Category: Python Interpreter Core
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Ben Escoto (bescoto)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Memory leaks in 2.2c1?

Initial Comment:
Sorry, this won't be a very good bug report, but
perhaps you can tell me how to make it better.  I wrote
a little python project (rdiff-backup  at
http://www.stanford.edu/~bescoto/rdiff-backup).  On my
computer it takes up about 7MB of memory even for large
datasets, but several users have complained that it
takes up so much memory on their systems (hundreds of
MB) it is totally unusable.

I suspect the problem is a memory leak in Python, but
the only way I know of isolating the problem is pretty
long, and none of the users affected know Python.  I
can't have them try an earlier version because the
program depends on generators extensively.

So, any advice?  Do you think the problem could be in
python?  How could I go about trying to replicate this
error?  Of course, if I end up finding it is python,
I'll try to submit a code snippet short enough to be
helpful to you guys...


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