[Zope-Coders] BTrees memory leak?

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@zope.com
Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:21:49 -0500 (EST)


>>>>> "CW" == Chris Withers <chrisw@nipltd.com> writes:

  CW> Jeremy Hylton wrote:
  >>
  >> If I run the BTrees test cases in a loop, they appear to leak
  >> ~18MB per run.  This should be repeatable from a StandaloneZODB
  >> build:

  CW> What storage is this backed on to?

FileStorage.

  CW> You know what fun I've been having with BTrees and FileStorage,

Indeed, I was thinking of you when I ran the test.

  CW> I'm now trying BerkleyStorage and the memory usage doesn't seem
  CW> to be a problem anymore (now I'm just running out of locks all
  CW> the time ;-)

Take that up with Barry!

  CW> maybe the BTrees are excercising a bug in FileStorage?

Good point!  I'll try the same test with a different storage.

Jeremy