[Python-Dev] Re: The OOM-Killer vs. Python

[François Pinard]

[Martin v. Loewis]

> If you don't create any cyclic garbage, you can find all container
> objects with gc.get_objects.  If you find that gc.get_objects does not
> grow longer over time, but your process still consumes more memory,
> one of your C extensions has a refcounting bug.

Out of curiosity, I checked with the latest HTML documentation (2.3a0)
and did not find documentation for `gc.get_objects'.  Should it be there?

P.S. - Looking at http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/module-gc.html.

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard