Jeremy Hylton wrote at 2003-12-7 23:01 -0500: >On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 08:15, Dieter Maurer wrote: >> ATT: replacing the cache without clearing it can lead to huge >> memory leaks (everything in the old cache is leaked!). > >Without commenting on the rest of the bug report, I should mention that >caches and persistent objects all participate in cyclic GC. They will >not leak the way pre-2.8 caches did.
Has the "do not free when a cycle contains an object with destructor" restriction been removed from the cyclic GC? It is not unlikely that the cache references an object with a "__del__". This may keep the cache and all its content. -- Dieter _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )