[issue27371] Runaway memory consumption using tkinter update()

2016-06-23 Thread Jeremy Blow
Jeremy Blow added the comment: Confirmed the problem is with Tk/MacOS. Running a simple TCL script yielded the same behavior in terms of memory. The hunt goes elsewhere... Thank you R. David for the suggestion. ``` package require Tk while 1 { update } ``` # MacOS 10.9.4 /Users/jeremy

[issue27371] Runaway memory consumption using tkinter update()

2016-06-23 Thread Jeremy Blow
Jeremy Blow added the comment: That seems like a good idea, will do so and report back findings. Hey, good meeting you at PyCon, by the way. Met you at the freelance open space. :-) -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue27

[issue27371] Runaway memory consumption using update()

2016-06-22 Thread Jeremy Blow
New submission from Jeremy Blow: Hi folks, While going about running tkinter's update() call within a coroutine/asyncio event loop in lieu of using mainloop(), I came across odd memory behavior on MacOS where the cpython process gradually increases memory consumption. Suspicious that