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

[Mike Coleman]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:38 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> Or perhaps there's a smarter way to manage the list of
>> arena/free pool info.
>
> If that code is the real problem (in a reproducible test case),
> then this approach is the only acceptable solution. Disabling
> long-running code is not acceptable.

By "disabling", I meant disabling the optimization that's trying to
rearrange the arenas so that more memory can be returned to the OS.
This presumably wouldn't be any worse than things were in Python 2.4,
when memory was never returned to the OS.

(I'm working on a test case.)