Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:05 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> I had a few hours look at the second largest process, the journal
> activity, on Joyride 2412.
>
> Then I used gdb to generate-core-file and wander through the heap memory
> to get an idea of what it might contain.  I did not make a complete
> analysis.  I need to learn more about the heap structures before I do
> so.

Wonder if this is what people familiar with python internals do?
Haven't tried myself.

> But I did notice one odd thing that I wasn't fully aware of until now
> ... the byte-code of the built-in modules was present, complete with doc
> strings ... for example;

Yes, we are aware of this one and have a fix on the line:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460334

There has been a thread recently on devel or sugar ml about it.

If you could help us quantify how much this could help, it would be
much appreciated.

> Has anyone got an idea of how to measure the heap by usage?

Not from outside python, but from inside we are using heapy:

http://guppy-pe.sourceforge.net/

Thanks,

Tomeu