You should give an idea of what your code looks like... anyway you may try to free some memory by removing references to "heavy" objects.
rows = db(db.mytable.id>0).select(db.mytable.ALL) . . (do stuff) . rows = None # remove reference to query result . . (do stuff) . mic 2011/10/18 Petrucio <petru...@inf.ufsc.br>: > I'm using dal.py to do some basic database programming, but outside > web2py. It's basic stuff, but there's a ton of data, and it seems to > be getting cached and never freed, so I eventually get into > MemoryError land. > > I've searched around and bumped into a lot of posts about using > cache.ram and cache.disk (and cache.ram.clear()), but haven't found > anything about how one should go about doing that outside web2py, or > if it's possible - should I go about solving all the unresolved > modules it finds? Would this get me where I want? How much work would > that be? I stopped early at pylab and have no idea how little/much > work that would be. > > Sorry about the noob question, and sorry if it's repeated - I've done > my best to search around and came empty handed. > > Thanks, > Petrucio >