Re: [Duplicity-talk] apparent memory leak on OS X

[Nate Eldredge]

On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Johann Heller wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm seeing the same large memory leak on Mac OS X. Details below:
> >
> > While trying to backup about 1 million files with duplicity I noticed a 
> > large memory leak. The leak seems to grow depending on the number of files 
> > processed.
> >
> > The leak seems to affect versions 0.6.16 and 0.6.17.
> >
> > Version 0.6.15 works without a leak.
>
> I'm seeing this as well, on Ubuntu Natty i386.  Duplicity 0.6.16 and 0.6.17 
> are affected while 0.6.15 is fine.

To further narrow this down, I tried some different revisions in the 
lp:duplicity branch.  It appears that revision 782 is good but 783 has the 
bug.  The relevant change is labeled

"Merged in lp:~mterry/duplicity/tarfile"

Unfortunately my python is not good enough to read the code and guess 
where the bug is.

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Nate Eldredge
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