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

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:56, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:06:07 +1000
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:31 PM,  <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > > results for 12de1ad1cee8 on branch "default"
> > > --------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > test_capi leaked [2008, 2008, 2008] references, sum=6024
> >
> > Yikes, you weren't kidding about that new subinterpreter code
> > execution test upsetting the refleak detection...
>
> Well, these are real leaks, but I expect them to be quite difficult to
> track (I've found a couple of them), because they can be scattered
> around in C module initialization routines and the like. I suggest we
> skip this test on refleak runs.
>

Do we have any general strategy to help make it more fine-grained to detect
where the leak might be coming from? 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.
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