[Python-Dev] extremely slow exit for program having huge (45G) dict (python 2.5.2)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-12-20 21:20, Leif Walsh wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 3:04 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>> These long exit times are usually caused by the garbage collection
>> of objects. This can be a very time consuming task.
> 
> In that case, the question would be "why is the interpreter collecting
> garbage when it knows we're trying to exit anyway?".

It cannot know until the very end, because there may still be
some try: ... except SystemExit: ... somewhere in the code
waiting to trigger and stop the system exit.

If you want a really fast exit, try this:

import os
os.kill(os.getpid(), 9)

But you better know what you're doing if you take this approach...

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