Re: [pysqlite] unusual memory behavior

"Michael Bayer" <[email protected]> Fri, 29 May 2009 11:28:02 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.db.pysqlite.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Damien Elmes wrote:
> Do these SQLAlchemy tests also cover the case of opening many separate
> SQLite databases that I mentioned on IRC a few months ago?

was there a trac ticket with a test case posted ?



>
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Michael Bayer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Gerhard H=E4ring wrote:
>>> Internally, pysqlite has these objects: connections, cursors and
>>> statements. Connections need to have access to all cursors and
>>> statements ever created on them. So, the connection object has a *list*
>>> of weak references for cursors, and a *list* of weak references for
>>> statements. To keep things simple and efficient, this list is only ever
>>> appended to. The connection object has also two members
>>> created_statements and created_cursors that counts the number of
>>> statement and cursor allocations.
>>>
>>> If created_statements or created_cursors reaches 200, the corresponding
>>> list is scanned for weak references that have unreachable objects (i.
>>> e.
>>> that were del-ed or removed by the gc). The list is then compacted to
>>> not contain any NULLs. And the counter member is reset to zero.
>>
>>
>> thats great, since it looked like there was some internal memory
>> management routine causing this to happen, and I was just curious if it
>> was known.
>> _______________________________________________
>> list-pysqlite mailing list
>> list-pysqlite-FR6EJeJVuqdwc357pe9rcyQmJico6nz3epZhswDD4dQ@public.gmane.org
>> http://itsystementwicklung.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/list-pysqlite
>>
> _______________________________________________
> list-pysqlite mailing list
> list-pysqlite-FR6EJeJVuqdwc357pe9rcyQmJico6nz3epZhswDD4dQ@public.gmane.org
> http://itsystementwicklung.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/list-pysqlite
>