memory leak?

[Gabriel Rossetti]

Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
> Terry Reedy wrote:
>> Gabriel Rossetti wrote:
>>
>>> I ran these tests on linux 2.6 (ubuntu 8.04) using python 2.5.2.
>>
>> Have you tried the much newer 2.6?  2.5.3 will be out soon with some 
>> bug fixes.
>>
> Thanks for the reply Terry, I just tried the pyserial example with 
> python 2.6 and it still has the same problem, here's the output (I 
> just copy/pasted the example in a running python2.6 interactive 
> interpreter) :
>
> test1 at 09:19am :
>
> $ ps waux | grep python2.6
> 1000      6730  0.2  0.4   6176  4120 pts/12   S+   09:17   0:00 
> python2.6
>
> if I try the SIGUSR1 method :
> $ kill -SIGUSR1 6730
>
> ####################################################################
> # DEBUG: The object count is : 12536
> ####################################################################
>
> test2 at 09:25am :
>
> $ ps waux | grep python2.6
> 1000      6730  0.0  0.9  12360 10168 pts/12   S+   09:17   0:00 
> python2.6
>
> and the SIGUSR1 method gives me :
>
> ####################################################################
> # DEBUG: The object count is : 25089
> ####################################################################
>
>
> I also tried freeing the received string (del t) explicitly but the 
> results are unchanged.
>
> Thank you,
> Gabriel
>
Apparently the memory goes up when I use the SIGUSR1 code, If I don't 
call it, it seams to work fine, my original memory leak must come from 
somewhere else then..... sorry for the spam.

Gabriel