[Python-Dev] extremely slow exit for program having huge (45G) dict (python 2.5.2)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-12-20 17:57, Mike Coleman wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Kristján Valur Jónsson
> <kristjan at ccpgames.com> wrote:
>> Can you distill the program into something reproducible?
>> Maybe with something slightly less than 45Gb but still exhibiting some degradation of exit performance?
>> I can try to point our commercial profiling tools at it and see what it is doing.
> 
> I will try next week to see if I can come up with a smaller,
> submittable example.  Thanks.

These long exit times are usually caused by the garbage collection
of objects. This can be a very time consuming task.

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