Comment 7 for bug 1065276

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Gary Kotton (garyk) wrote : Re: [Bug 1065276] Re: Quantum test suite leaks memory like a sieve

On 11/15/2012 09:22 AM, Iryoung Jeong wrote:
> Hello,
>
> At first, I'd like to say "I'm sorry" if I bothered anyone(because
> someone was already assigned to this bug)
>
> For me, run_tests failed because of out-of-memory(I have only 1G mem VM
> for testing quantum :(
>
> So, after a few hours of investigation, I found some points of leaks
> which make run_tests can run successfully with 1G mem.
>
> With this patch, final memory consumption looks like this.(with Ubuntu
> Precise 64bit)
>
> UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
> xxxx 15613 15607 98 230434 850328 0 15:39 pts/4 00:06:59 python .//run_tests.py
>
> Definitely, it looks like there's more leaks(still more than 800MB), but this can be starting point for others who'd like to dig further.
> (IMHO, this is just tests, so if production code doesn't have leak, this size of memory leak is acceptable... for me :)
>

Hi,
Thank you for trying to address tis. I have taken a look and the patch
does not address the memory utilization. If you run top whilst the tests
are running you will see how the memory is "chewed up"
Thanks
Gary