Re: Is Django "leaking memory"?

2011-03-30 Thread Mike Ramirez
On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 06:48:15 pm dlamotte wrote: > I've documented what is going on here: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5494178/why-doesnt-memory-get-released-t > o-system-after-large-queries-or-series-of-queri > > Basically, the memory doesn't "grow continuously" but it isn't >

Re: Is Django "leaking memory"?

2011-03-30 Thread Calvin Spealman
Python itself allocates memory in large chunks and can't release them until all objects in them have been garbage collected. Older versions of CPython didn't even release this chunks at all. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:48 PM, dlamotte wrote: > I've documented what is going on

Is Django "leaking memory"?

2011-03-30 Thread dlamotte
I've documented what is going on here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5494178/why-doesnt-memory-get-released-to-system-after-large-queries-or-series-of-queri Basically, the memory doesn't "grow continuously" but it isn't released to the system (yes DEBUG = False in settings.py). What I'm