[Zope-dev] Re: Preliminary findings: Zope 2.7 leakage caused by errors

[Dieter Maurer]

Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca wrote at 2004-5-20 09:58 -0400:
> ...
>def new_publish(request, module_name, after_list, debug=0): 
>    id = get_ident() 
>    print "Localizer got thread id: " + str(id)
>    Publish._requests[id] = request 
>    print "Request dict is now: " + str(Publish._requests)   
>    x = Publish.old_publish(request, module_name, after_list, debug) 
>    try:
>        del Publish._requests[id]
>    except KeyError:
> ...

This code cannot leak requests in large numbers (though it may
leak a few requests for some time).

Reason: Zope does not normally create new threads. This implies
that thread_ids are reused and thereby old requests flushed from
the dict.

-- 
Dieter