Re: [xml] ¿leak using libxml2 for sax-parsing html in python?

[John Dennis <jdennis redhat com>]

On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 17:21 +0100, Cesar Ortiz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Maybe the top is fooling me, but after 10 minutes of execution (the
> example I attached with an infinite loop) it took half of the machine
> memory (2 Gbs of a 4Gbs Linux Box), and later the process crashed due
> to a 'Memory Error'. 
> 
> I am pretty sure libxml2 does not leak, but may be there is something
> wrong with the python bindings, or may be I am forgetting something.

Are you calling freeDoc, freeNode, xpathFreeContext, etc. or are you
blindly assuming the python bindings are doing this for you?
-- 
John Dennis <jdennis redhat com>