[New-bugs-announce] [issue28147] Memory leak in dictionary resize

[Min RK]

New submission from Min RK:

There is a memory leak in the new dictionary resizing in 3.6, which can cause memory exhaustion in just a few iterations.

I don't fully understand the details of the bug, but it happens when resizing a dict with a split table several times.  The only way that I have found to trigger this is by popping items off of an object's `__dict__` repeatedly.

I've attached a script to illustrate the issue. Be careful with it, because it will eat up all your memory if you don't interrupt it.

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components: Interpreter Core
files: test-dict-pop.py
messages: 276418
nosy: minrk
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Memory leak in dictionary resize
type: crash
versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file44658/test-dict-pop.py

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