[reportlab-users] Generating huge reports and memory consumption

[Alessandro Praduroux]

On Monday 06 January 2003 12:18, Robin Becker wrote:
> In article <thq6$KAE$VG+EwGt@jessikat.demon.co.uk>, Robin Becker
> <robin@reportlab.com> writes
>
> >Hi, thanks for your report on the latest CVS _rl_accel.c source. Can you
> >say which test was the one that had the memory increase? When I run the
> >last test to 40000 pages I see essentially no increase at all under
> >win32 (the memory oscillates up and down near 6.9Mb).
> >
> >I will attempt this under freeBSD to see what happens there.
>
> OK the freeBSD memory for that test is also completely static. If you're
> getting memory increases I guess I need to know a bit more about the
> content.

With the simple script you posted near the start of this thread, I get no 
memory increase, but with my real life example I get a little increase over 
time. I attach here my script, along with a couple of data files (obviously, 
all data is fake to protect privacy :))

All U have to do is run 

$ python avviso.py

and see the slight memory increase.

here is my actual setup:
bash-2.05b$ uname -a
Linux server 2.4.19-k7-smp #1 SMP Tue Nov 19 04:02:50 EST 2002 i686 unknown 
unknown GNU/Linux

bash-2.05b$ python
Python 2.2.2 (#1, Dec 18 2002, 10:36:37)
[GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2

Reportlab CVS version of yesterday night, CET time ~ 22.00

Distro is Debian sid.

Let me know if U need any more details or if I can do any more testing.

Bye

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