[Zope-dev] Re: Zope 2.4 crashes -- possible fix identified, other solutions also suggested

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "MTK" == Matthew T Kromer <matt@zope.com> writes:

  MTK> A side effect of shutting off the garbage collector is that you
  MTK> can have some storage leaks.  We're working on being able to
  MTK> re-enable the garbage collector so that you don't exhaust
  MTK> memory over time.

Do you have any more idea about what shutting the garbage collector
off achieves?  In practice, the garbage collector's most common effect
is to turn latent bugs into manifest bugs; a bug has trashed part of
memory and the garbage collector just happens to find it first.  If
you turn GC off in these cases, you run a little longer, but you're
running with corrupted memory.

Jeremy