[PyQt] Debug potential memory leaks

Kovid Goyal kovid at kovidgoyal.net
Wed Apr 8 04:24:13 BST 2015


See the various functions in: 
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/blob/master/src/calibre/utils/mem.py

On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 09:47:36PM +0200, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a small 'systray' application that monitors a jenkins service
> and it seems there's some kind of memory leak, especially on MacOSX. After
> having it run for a while (with the machine going to sleep now and again)
> it starts eating quite some memory - if I understand top/ActivityMonitor
> correctly - and amd wondering now how I'd best debug a PyQt application's
> memory consumption.
> 
> So what tools do you guys usually use to debug such memory leaks? I've
> tried valgrind on Linux but there's no good hint there, possibly also due
> to the way Python works.
> 
> Andreas

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