Hi Gregg,
Changing the Session.remove() to an expunge_all doesn't have any
effect, the growth continues.

Chris

On Apr 8, 4:10 pm, Gregg Lind <[email protected]> wrote:
> I believe you want session.expunge() or session.expunge_all().
>
> GL
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Chris  Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi everyone!
> > I have a threaded application which deals with a lot of records (it
> > generates hundreds of thousands in an hour). I have a Database module
> > that my program imports, and use scoped_session to make the session
> > thread-safe. When a record is to be inserted, my program passes the
> > object to be saved to the Database insert() function. Here's the code:
>
> > ==============
>
> > engine = sa.create_engine(engine_url, echo=echo)
> > Session = sa.orm.scoped_session(sa.orm.sessionmaker(bind=engine,
> > autocommit=False))
>
> > def insert(obj):
> >    try:
> >        session().merge(obj)
> >    except Exception, e:
> >        log.warning("Database problem: " + str(e))
> >        session().rollback()
> >        raise
> >    else:
> >        log.debug("Saved to database")
>
> >        session().commit()
> >        Session.remove()
>
> > def session():
> >    return Session()
>
> > ==============
>
> > Even though I call Session.remove(), it seems that I can't stop
> > sqlalchemy.orm.identity.IdentityManagedState growing. Unit testing
> > which inserts a couple thousand records shows the growth with Heapy.
> > The "dict of sqlalchemy.orm.identity.IdentityManagedState" starts at
> > 334 objects, ending with 11210 objects.
>
> > I thought Session.remove() would cause SQLAlchemy to release those
> > resources, but this doesn't seem to be the case. As the process is
> > going to need to long-running (weeks hopefully), I'm far happier with
> > performing expensive CPU operations than exhausting my memory.
>
> > I am certain this is my own error, but I am not sure what it is. Any
> > help would be appreciated!
>
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Chris Lewis
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