Re: [Zope-dev] disabling gc does not necessarily hide memory corruption

2001-12-19 Thread Toby Dickenson
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 06:07:00 +1100, Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me, I run the ZEO server without GC (because that stops the stomped stack bug killing the ZEO server) Do you have reason to believe that this bug can affect the ZEO server? that would be very bad. Toby Dickenson

RE: [Zope-dev] disabling gc does not necessarily hide memory corruption

2001-12-19 Thread Brian Lloyd
Oh, ok, sorry for the misreport. It sounds then as if we need to fix whatever is causing the memory corruption that GC trips over. I dont know that we have a real good handle on what this is. I'm pretty sure we do. The stack estimation problems cause memory stomping, which happens to tend

Re: [Zope-dev] disabling gc does not necessarily hide memory corruption

2001-12-19 Thread Chris McDonough
Developers list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 9:35 AM Subject: RE: [Zope-dev] disabling gc does not necessarily hide memory corruption Oh, ok, sorry for the misreport. It sounds then as if we need to fix whatever is causing the memory corruption that GC trips over. I

Re: [Zope-dev] disabling gc does not necessarily hide memory corruption

2001-12-19 Thread Martijn Pieters
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 05:24:58PM -0200, Leonardo Rochael Almeida wrote: On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 13:34, Chris McDonough wrote: It would be good if someone who is experiencing random crashes could confirm that the the new compiler package fixes their problem. I might risk losing a few more

Re: [Zope-dev] disabling gc does not necessarily hide memory corruption

2001-12-18 Thread Toby Dickenson
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 23:13:54 -0500, Chris McDonough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah ok... yeah, there were reportedly several leaks in the compiler stuff that have been fixed in CVS. I imagine that's what this is. Is the compiler still based on bytecodehacks? If so, I dont think this is a bug As

Re: [Zope-dev] disabling gc does not necessarily hide memory corruption

2001-12-18 Thread Jeremy Hylton
CM == Chris McDonough [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CM Ah ok... yeah, there were reportedly several leaks in the CM compiler stuff that have been fixed in CVS. I imagine that's CM what this is. Actually, I don't think the leaks haven't been fixed in CVS. It would be at best painful to try

Re: [Zope-dev] disabling gc does not necessarily hide memory corruption

2001-12-18 Thread Anthony Baxter
Jeremy Hylton wrote Actually, I don't think the leaks haven't been fixed in CVS. It would be at best painful to try and get the compiler code to work without cycle GC. I really don't want to have to do it. In that case, there should probably be a readme note or similar saying if you're

Re: [Zope-dev] disabling gc does not necessarily hide memory corruption

2001-12-18 Thread Chris McDonough
Oh, ok, sorry for the misreport. It sounds then as if we need to fix whatever is causing the memory corruption that GC trips over. I dont know that we have a real good handle on what this is. Note that in the meantime, folks who turn off gc in order to work around the issue who are having

[Zope-dev] disabling gc does not necessarily hide memory corruption

2001-12-17 Thread Leonardo Rochael Almeida
On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 20:57, Jeremy Hylton wrote: MTK == Matthew T Kromer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MTK A side effect of shutting off the garbage collector is that you MTK can have some storage leaks. We're working on being able to MTK re-enable the garbage collector so that you

Re: [Zope-dev] disabling gc does not necessarily hide memory corruption

2001-12-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
Chris McDonough wrote This behavior is with the patches to the compiler package that were the genesis of this thread? No, prior to that. I posted something about it to zope-dev an age or six ago - it seemed like the RestrictedPython compiler had mungo mungo numbers of cycles, and we found we

Re: [Zope-dev] disabling gc does not necessarily hide memory corruption

2001-12-17 Thread Chris McDonough
Ah ok... yeah, there were reportedly several leaks in the compiler stuff that have been fixed in CVS. I imagine that's what this is. Anthony Baxter wrote: Chris McDonough wrote This behavior is with the patches to the compiler package that were the genesis of this thread? No, prior to