On Jun 26, 5:19 am, Tom Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having a problem where a long-running function will cause a > memory leak / balloon for reasons I cannot figure out. Essentially, I > loop through a directory of pickled files, load them, and run some > other functions on them. In every case, each function uses only local > variables and I even made sure to use `del` on each variable at the > end of the loop. However, as the loop progresses the amount of memory > used steadily increases.
Do you happen to be using a single Unpickler instance? If so, change it to use a different instance each time. (If you just use the module- level load function you are already using a different instance each time.) Unpicklers hold a reference to everything they've seen, which prevents objects it unpickles from being garbage collected until it is collected itself. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
