Memory leak while looping
Aahz
aahz at pythoncraft.com
Fri Apr 18 00:21:30 EDT 2003
In article <1020cbf8.0304171900.110a1675 at posting.google.com>,
Roger Hancock <roger_hancock at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Thanks for the help. The xrange call solved my problem. However, I'm
>still a little puzzled by the behavior I'm seeing with the range call.
> With my now better understanding of the range call, I would expect to
>see my function take a big chunk of memory until the function exited.
>Instead, the function continues to grab more and more memory. First,
>it takes most of my physical memory (256 MB) and then proceeds to eat
>up my swap memory. Eventually my machine reboots. Pretty impressive,
>huh? Just imagine the damage I could do with 4 lines of code.
Please post the precise code you see doing this. I'd suspect you've
probably got some kind of recursive function that's keeping the memory
alive.
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