On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:05:54AM -0800, Simon King wrote:
> While reading the source, I noticed the documentation for
> pyramid.traversal.quote_path_segment which says:
>
> The return value for each segment passed to this
> function is cached in a module-scope dictionary for
> speed: the cached version is returned when possible
> rather than recomputing the quoted version. No cache
> emptying is ever done for the lifetime of an
> application, however. If you pass arbitrary
> user-supplied strings to this function (as opposed to
> some bounded set of values from a 'working set' known to
> your application), it may become a memory leak.
>
>
> https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/blob/1.4/pyramid/traversal.py#L549
>
>
> As far as I can tell, if you are generating URLs based on strings from a
> database, whether with traversal or url dispatch, that cache will end up
> containing every string from your database that ever gets used during URL
> generation.
This is what it looks like on a server I manage:
>>> len(pyramid.traversal._segment_cache)
110943
Looks big, but the total memory used is modest, only around 19 MB
according to sys.getsizeof. You would need a pretty big database for it
to be a problem.
--
Brian Sutherland
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