Yes, you can precompile the code snippets. For example, the code below doesn't
'leak'. Depending how dynamic your scripting is, this may not help always, but
hopefully some:
x = compile("2+2", "<string>", "eval")
for i in xrange(123456789):
eval(x)
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: Szymon Kobalczyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:30 PM
To: Martin Maly; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IronPython] Is this memory leak ?
But do you have any workaround or maybe some recommendations how to handle
this. You say that eval doesn't use LCG, so is there any other way to use IP
that would use it? Or maybe there is a way to compile the script snipets only
once and reuse them as most of the time they stay unchanged?
Any help would be mostly appreciated as now we highly depend on this code.
Szymon
Martin Maly wrote:
>Unfortunately, this is a known issue that we have on our to-do list.
>The code generated by eval is not generated using lightweight codegen and as
>such it is not garbage collected. As the result, you see the memory effects
>you are describing.
>We will definitely fix this by our 1.0 release, most likely even before Beta
>and I'll try to find some time to look at this even before then depending on
>my time.
>
>Martin
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Szymon
>Kobalczyk
>Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 10:13 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [IronPython] Is this memory leak ?
>
>Hi,
>
>We just noticed a serious memory leak in our server application. It happens
>after we execute some code that uses extensively dynamic scripting with
>IronPython. After one run the allocation grows from 70MB to more then 500MB.
>
>I've investigated the memory heap using WinDbg and all paths lead to the
>IronPython.Objects.Frame. All the variables that I passed to the PythonEngine
>are kept in the dictionary inside these Frames. These Frames in turn are kept
>in some static object[] array.
>
>In attached project I run in a loop some trivial script using engine Execute
>method. You can attach to it using WinDbg and check that after the loop
>completes there are 100 instances of Frame. Here is one sample from the gcroot
>command:
>
>0:003> !gcroot 00b37918
>Note: Roots found on stacks may be false positives. Run "!help gcroot" for
>more info.
>Scan Thread 0 OSTHread 13dc
>Scan Thread 2 OSTHread 17fc
>DOMAIN(00153570):HANDLE(Pinned):9313e4:Root:01ab4480(System.Object[])->
>00b37918(IronPython.Objects.Frame)
>
>I also tried this with the evaluate method and the effect was the same.
>Only with (my favorite) FastEval option the memory is not allocated. So this
>could mean this leak occurs during code generation.
>
>I hope this is something that can be fixed quickly as we need to deploy this
>solution to production.
>
>Note: I still work on .NET Beta 2 and IronPython 0.9.3. I also run the test on
>the 0.9.4 version but results were the same.
>
>Thanks in Advance,
>Szymon Kobalczyk.
>
>
>PS: I post this mail again cause previously it had to large attachment and was
>held for approval by moderator.
>
>
>
>
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