[Mailman-Developers] Re: Huge qrunner process

[Thomas Wouters]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 07:06:10AM -0500, sigma@pair.com wrote:

> Except in the case where you're certain that the object is really
> unreferenced, like the circular reference case.

No, it *is* referenced. That it's referenced by yourself, or by an object
that you yourself reference, or how long the circle is, is unimportant. Just
deallocating it could still lead to crashes.

> Perhaps as a quick hack, I could rewrite qrunner and/or senddigests to
> launch a new script for each list in the loop.  That would workaround the
> memory problem.

Probably, yes. It would require spawning a new python interpreter each time
though :P

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