Memory leak when spawning

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <mailman.982239616.8088.python-list at python.org>,
 <jurgen.defurne at philips.com> wrote:
>
>I don't know if this piece of source is small enough, but it is
>probably the smallest I can create with the same symptoms : every time
>a spawn is made, and the spawned program stops, some 4k to 12k of
>memory is lost (not 800 to 1200 as I said last time).

Tim Peters posted recently that a change was made in Python 2.0 such
that a new GIL object was created in spawned programs.  However, this
should not affect the spawning program, so I don't know what's causing
your problem.
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