Re: [Issue 149] too many open files using PyPy

On 05/18/2013 08:23 AM, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> On 05/17/2013 08:27 PM, Jan Smets wrote:
>> Pass 16 (output pass) is running out of memory after several hours.
>> Probably some PyPy effect too. Any idea if there is anything in that
>> pass that isn't properly freeing memory?
>> I'll see what I can find, but my python knowledge is weak/non-existing.
>>
>> Thanks for all your great help!
> 
> The CPython garbage-collector is only needed for circular reference
> loops, because most unused objects are cleared via reference counting.
> cvs2svn is careful not to create any reference loops, so the
> garbage-collector was costing a lot of overhead but bringing zero
> benefit.  So:
> 
> * In main.py:main(), we turn off the CPython garbage-collector by
> calling gc.disable().
> [...]

I just pushed revisions r5430 and r5431, which make cvs2svn turn off the
garbage collector only if it is sure that it is running under CPython.

Michael

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