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

[Antoine Pitrou]

Well, they should be fixed now :-)

Regards

Antoine.


On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:42:15 +0100
Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> 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 Py_Initialize/Py_Finalize 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.