Hello everybody,
To test the python 2.5 garbage collector, I wrote a trivial script
allocating dummy objects of various sizes, then forgetting them in a loop.
The garbage collector seems working well, limiting the memory used.
But I've noticed a near linear slowdown of the execution : after a few
minutes - and several millions of allocated and freed objects, each
iteration take more and more time to execute.
Does anybody have noticed this ? Could python suffers from some memory
fragmentation in long running processes ?
I've got the same slowdown in python 2.5.2 on a 64 bits gentoo linux
box, and on a winxp machine.
FYI, the following script shows this : it prints the seconds taken for
each iteration.
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import random,sys
from timeit import Timer
class Reference(objec t):
refcount = {}
def __init__(self):
name = self.__class__. __name__
c = self.refcount.s etdefault(name, 0)
self.refcount[name] = c + 1
class ClassicSmall(Re ference):
def __init__(self):
super(ClassicSm all,self).__ini t__()
self.a = 0;
self.b = 20000;
self.c = random.randint( 0,500)
self.d = random.randint( 0,500)
class ClassicBig(Refe rence):
def __init__(self):
super(ClassicBi g,self).__init_ _()
self.mylist = range(1000)
class Tree(Reference) :
def __init__(self,l eft,right):
super(Tree,self ).__init__()
self.left = left
self.right = right
self.data = ''.join([chr(x) for x in range(65,128)])
def doit():
smalls = []
bigs = []
trees = []
for i in xrange(30000):
smalls.append(C lassicSmall())
bigs.append(Cla ssicBig())
trees.append(Tr ee(1,2))
if __name__ == '__main__':
t = Timer("doit()", "from __main__ import doit; gc.enable()")
min = 0.9e300; max=0.
try:
while True:
d = t.timeit(1)
if d < min:
min = d
if d max:
max = d
print d
except:
pass
print Reference.refco unt
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