> I notice that M2Crypto (a python wrap of OpenSSL) leaks (haemorrhages) > memory significantly and affects my long running app very badly. > > Does anyone know of fixes to this problem? > > Does anyone recommmend alternatives to M2C ? e.g pyopenssl.
If you control both ends of the connection then you can do what I did and switch to SSH. The Python Paramiko library implements it really well. (I ended up doing XML-RPC over SSH). Roger -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list