On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 05:21:47PM +0100, Cesar Ortiz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Maybe the top is fooling me, but after 10 minutes of execution (the example
> I attached with an infinite loop) it took half of the machine memory (2 Gbs
> of a 4Gbs Linux Box), and later the process crashed due to a 'Memory Error'.

  there is probably a leak then

> I am pretty sure libxml2 does not leak, but may be there is something wrong
> with the python bindings, or may be I am forgetting something.

  As stated before you *must* run it to completion in a smaller
case and see what the libxml2 internal memory dump shows in the end.
Except that only actual low level debugging will allow to make any progress
I'm afraid.

Daniel

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