[Zope] Tip: huge memory leak fixed (dtml and pythonscript)

[Andy McKay]

This sounds like the leak in AccessControl that Matt fixed recently. We have
been having similar Memory Leaks and apparently this is fixed in 2.6. What
version are you using?
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  Andy McKay
  @gmweb Consulting
  http://www.agmweb.ca


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jo Meder" <jo@meder.de>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 2:50 AM
Subject: [Zope] Tip: huge memory leak fixed (dtml and pythonscript)


>
> Hello everybody,
>
> after much gnashing of teeth and pulling out of hair we finally seem to
> have found the error in our ways. What we were doing led to a massive
> memory leak and I thought I'd let everbody know so you know what to
> avoid.
>
> Our setup is something like <dtml-document or method> calls
> <pythonscript> and <pythonscript> calls <restrictedTraverse> for some
> given <path>. The resulting <object> is then used to render some content
> and the resulting data is returned.
>
> Here comes the warning: If you don't explicitly set the <object>
> obtained by <restrictedTraverse> to <None> (maybe you could <del> it
> instead just as well) this <object> will be leaked with any
> <subobjects> instantiated along the way, namely a
> <ImplicitAcquirerWrapper> and (in our case) a <DateTime>.
>
>
> Hope this helps someone somewhere.
>
> Jo.
>
>
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