Memory leak when creating lots of object

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed Aug 15 11:13:47 EDT 2007


On 14 Aug, 05:57, Godzilla <godzillais... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a program that create and pop an object off a queue, but it is
> experiencing some memory leakage. I have been unable to detect where
> the memory leakage occur. The strange thing is when i replace the
> object creation with a plain integer/string, the leak goes away...
> Here's the code I used as my test:
[...]
> I can see the memory usage increases slowly in Task Manager under XP,
> but do not know why. Anyone help?

I tried your code on my (Windows XP SP2, Python 2.5) system. No memory
leak here - I left it running for over 5 minutes and memory usage was
static at just under 4MB.

Do you see memory growth with precisely this code? Over what period?
How much?

Paul.




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