Re: memory leak?

[email protected] wrote:

> This Python script eventually consumes all available memory and  
> dies.  Is this
> a bug?
[...]
> import metakit, os
>
> store = metakit.storage("leakcheck", 1)
> db = store.getas("test_db[k:B]")
>
> while True:
>     k = os.urandom(20)
>     db.append(k=k)
>     db.delete(db.find(k=k))

No.  It's because all changes are buffered in memory until commit.   
To avoid it, insert "db.commit()", say every 100,000 iterations.

-jcw
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