[Zope-dev] Memory Leak debug - help

[Shane Hathaway]

Júlio Dinis Silva wrote:
> I've tracked down some memory leaks and now after running
> for 3 days zeo client's memory goes stable.
> 
> But I would like to know if there is someone who can comment on this:
> 
> -On a zope client running for 3 days I get on top of RefCount
> from DebugInfo the following class:
> 
> BTrees.IIBtree.IIBucket
> 
> Question1: does anyone can point out some products which do heavy
> use of this class soo I can debug on that? I know there is ZCatalog, but 
> what else?
> 
> Question2: does anyone know if it is safe to apply to this class
> the LeakFinder product patch?

It probably won't work.  IIBucket is implemented in C.  LeakFinder tries 
to patch classes with an __init__ and a __del__, which only works with 
Python classes.

ZCatalog could be the culprit if you have a lot of records.

Shane