[Pymilter] memory leak in 0.9.2?
Stuart D. Gathman
stuart at bmsi.com
Tue Jul 28 13:13:05 EDT 2009
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> I guess the first question to investigate is if the leak is in the
> Python API (missing a Py_DECREF somewhere) or the libmilter API. I wonder if
> there is a way to tell how much of the 144M is allocated as:
>
> 1) python objects
> 2) malloc/free via libmilter
> 3) threads
There is also the possibility that the 144M is in a global datastructure
allocated by python code. For instance, I keep ip sets, CBV result maps,
and other global datastructures which use quite a bit of memory.
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