[ovirt-devel] [VDSM] Avoiding leaks when handling exceptions

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 08:38:30PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I found an interesting post about error handling and how to avoid such
> leaks - please check:
> https://cosmicpercolator.com/2016/01/13/exception-leaks-in-python-2-and-3/
> 
> Nir

Interesting. Afrer enough time, we would have one traceback object per
live thread, and we may have plenty of such object prior to garbage
collection.

Have you tried if running gc.collect() clears these stale traceback
objects you've seen?