windows mem leak

[Bob Smith]

Does the Win32 port of Python have a memory leak? I have some code that
runs flawlessly on Linux, but bombs after a few hours on Windows. It's
threaded and uses a lot of memory.

Thanks!

[Peter Hansen]

Re: windows mem leak

Bob Smith wrote:[color=blue]
> Does the Win32 port of Python have a memory leak? I have some code that
> runs flawlessly on Linux, but bombs after a few hours on Windows. It's
> threaded and uses a lot of memory.[/color]

Let's see what you're missing:

1. platform specifics
2. versions of things involved
3. any sort of detail about the code
4. how you're noticing/measuring the problem
5. what "bombs" means
6. any mention that you've checked Sourceforge to see whether
a similar problem has been reported

There have been memory leaks in various past versions of Python,
and could easily be in the current version, but they're generally
rather specific in terms of the code that can trigger it. Once it
was doing some particular work with a socket, once it was trying to
append (or extend?) to an empty list, and so on.

There are also a few ways you could have written your application
to cause memory to leak as a result of your own code, not as a
result of Python's. And it's even possible that this would happen
only on one platform (though I'm trying hard to think of an example
and can't... maybe it's very unlikely.)

-Peter

[Steve Holden]

Re: windows mem leak

Bob Smith wrote:
[color=blue]
> Does the Win32 port of Python have a memory leak? I have some code that
> runs flawlessly on Linux, but bombs after a few hours on Windows. It's
> threaded and uses a lot of memory.
>
> Thanks![/color]

Yes, that's a well-known problem. Code that runs with a few errors will
port without any trouble at all to Windows, but once it runs flawlessly
on Linux it starts to leak memory on Windows. The PSU suspects a plot in
Redmond, the basic details of which ar
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[Bob Smith]

Re: windows mem leak

Steve Holden wrote:[color=blue]
> Bob Smith wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Does the Win32 port of Python have a memory leak? I have some code
>> that runs flawlessly on Linux, but bombs after a few hours on Windows.
>> It's threaded and uses a lot of memory.
>>
>> Thanks![/color]
>
>
> Yes, that's a well-known problem. Code that runs with a few errors will
> port without any trouble at all to Windows, but once it runs flawlessly
> on Linux it starts to leak memory on Windows. The PSU suspects a plot in
> Redmond, the basic details of which ar[/color]

Oh, the humor of it all ;)

Attached is the code. Run it yourself and see. You too Peter. Be gentle
with me, this was my first attempt with threads.

import os
import urllib
import socket
import time
import Queue
import threading

############### ############### ############
# Network Section #
############### ############### ############

socket.setdefau lttimeout(30)

networks = []
hosts = []
subnets = []

# Add the network 192.168.0 possibility to networks.
networks.append ("192.168.0. ")

# Generate and add networks 192.168.1-255 to networks.
n = 0
while n < 255:
n = n + 1
networks.append ("192.168.%s ." %(n))

# Generate and add hosts 1-254 to hosts.
for network in networks:
h = 1
# Add the n.n.n.0 host possibility to hosts.
hosts.append(ne twork+str(h))
while h < 254:
h = h + 1
hosts.append(ne twork+str(h))

# This should equal 65024 or 256 * 254
# because 256 possibilities are OK in the 3rd octet,
# but only 254 possibilities are OK in the 4th octet...
# we exclude 0 and 255.
print "There are", len(hosts), "total hosts (192.168.256*25 4) in the hosts list."

a = 0
b = 254

## Add the 192.168.0 net list to the subnets list.
subnets.append( hosts[0:254])
##print subnets
##print len(subnets)

## Add the 192.168.1-254 net lists to the subnets list.
for x in xrange(254):
a = a+254
b = b+254
subnets.append( hosts[a:b])
##print subnets
##print len(subnets)

## Add the 192.168.255 net list to the subnets list.
subnets.append( hosts[64770 :65024])
##print subnets[0]
print "There are", len(subnets), "class C network lists in the subnets list."

############### ############### ############
# Queue Section #
############### ############### ############

# Create a queue of urls to feed the threads
# Make it so that the queue only contains 256 items

nmap_queue = Queue.Queue(256 )
for subnet in subnets:
nmap_queue.put( subnet)

############### ############### #############
# Thread Section #
############### ############### #############

class prac(threading. Thread):

def run(self):
net = nmap_queue.get( )
for ip in net:
Y = os.popen('nmap -sT -p 80 -P0 -n %s' %ip)
data = Y.read()
Y.close()
if 'open' in data:
O = file('opened.tx t', 'a')
print >> O, ip
O.close()
elif 'closed' in data:
C = file('closed.tx t', 'a')
print >> C, ip
C.close()
elif 'filtered' in data:
F = file('filtered. txt' , 'a')
print >> F, ip
F.close()
else:
V = file('other.txt ', 'a')
print >> V, data, ip
V.close()

threads = []
for i in xrange(256):
go = prac()
threads.append( go)
for thread in threads:
thread.start()
while threading.activ eCount() > 1:
print str(threading.a ctiveCount()), "threads running incl. main"
time.sleep(1)

[Bulba!]

Re: windows mem leak

On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 15:00:05 -0500, Steve Holden <steve@holdenwe b.com>
wrote:
[color=blue][color=green]
>> Does the Win32 port of Python have a memory leak? I have some code that
>> runs flawlessly on Linux, but bombs after a few hours on Windows. It's
>> threaded and uses a lot of memory.[/color][/color]
[color=blue]
>Yes, that's a well-known problem. Code that runs with a few errors will
>port without any trouble at all to Windows, but once it runs flawlessly
>on Linux it starts to leak memory on Windows. The PSU suspects a plot in
>Redmond, the basic details of which ar[/color]

You have my nomination for SOTW*. :-)

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