Memory usage steadily going up while pickling objects

[Giorgos Tzampanakis]

On 2013-06-15, Peter Otten wrote:

> Giorgos Tzampanakis wrote:
>
>> So it seems that the pickle module does keep some internal cache or
>> something like that. 
>
> I don't think there's a global cache. The Pickler/Unpickler has a per-
> instance cache (the memo dict) that you can clear with the clear_memo() 
> method, but that doesn't matter here.
>
>> I don't want to resort to reading the pickle source
>> code, but it seems I will have to...
>  
> I'd look somewhere else...
>

Indeed. The problem was in my code after all. Still, thanks to all for the
memory debugging tips!


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