On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 11:46:54 AM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
>
> I stopped it when about 5 GB of memory was used (as seen be top on that 
> python process). So yes, there is a leak somewhere. 
>

Quite probably.

In principle, though, we're making such a mess of the memory that we could 
make python leak even without direct leaks: Some of our data structures 
need *repeated* gc calls to clean all garbage (because cleaning a cyclic 
garbage cluster might cause another part to become cyclic garbage, which 
will only be collected with the next gc call). Python doesn't do repeated 
gc's. So I strongly suspect we could engineer an example where our rate of 
garbage production exceeds the rate at which gc recovers it. 

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