Tony Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > are you willing Yes, so long as I don't need root, I can follow instructions OK. By the way, the same thing (memory leak 2.5.2) occurred on Centos 4.6, a different Linux box. Lets proceed on that Centos 4.6 box. Here are the particulars:
Python-2.5.2]$ file python python: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python-2.5.2]$ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python-2.5.2]$ cat /etc/[EMAIL PROTECTED] CentOS release 4.6 (Final) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python-2.5.2]$ uname -a Linux hathi.ambric.local 2.6.9-67.0.15.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu May 8 10:50:20 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux (after make test) test_largefile test_linuxaudiodev test_linuxaudiodev skipped -- Use of the `audio' resource not enabled test_list (stalls here so I dumped it) make: *** [test] Quit (another window, just before I dumped it) top - 01:36:31 up 4 days, 15:07, 5 users, load average: 2.70, 0.84, 0.32 Tasks: 87 total, 1 running, 86 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 3.8% us, 9.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 86.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.5% si Mem: 15639112k total, 15610836k used, 28276k free, 280k buffers Swap: 24579440k total, 1533172k used, 23046268k free, 57676k cached PID USER PR NI %CPU TIME+ %MEM VIRT RES SHR S COMMAND 17190 tony 24 0 17 1:05.49 90.9 32.2g 13g 7200 D python 69 root 16 0 6 0:12.97 0.0 0 0 0 D kswapd0 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3107> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com