[Zope3-Users] MemoryError Evolving a ZODB

[Jeroen Michiel]

I was thinking along the same lines.
I have found a spot in the code with circular references, and indeed (using
heapy) it seems those are the objects (which happen to be quite big also)
taking most of the memory. The main problem is now to get rid of them while
staying within memory boundaries. It's a part of the code I implemented
first in this site, and it was also the time I started working with
Zope/Grok, so I would approach things quite differently now, knowing what I
know about the ZODB that I didn't know then...
I guess multiple transactions will be needed, indeed.

It originally was just a matter of indexing objects, but wanting to get rid
of the circular references, it has become a db migration...

Thanks for the advice, I'll keep you posted on how I fixed it (if I ever
do), might be interesting for other people, too.

Regards,
Jeroen


Alexandre Garel-2 wrote:
> 
> Le 12/12/2012 09:39, Jeroen Michiel a écrit :
>> Thanks for the reply!
>>
>> I already tried
>> transaction.savepoint()
>> every minute, but that didn't help: I only saw the memory usage dropping
>> the
>> first time, but never after.
>>
>> I changed the code to what you suggested, but it still doesn't seem to
>> help.
>> Something must be wrong somewhere along the line, but I don't have a clue
>> where to begin looking.
>> Would using something like guppy (or heapy, or what it's called) reveal
>> something?
>>
>> Could it be something about objects with circular references not being
>> able
>> to be garbage-collected?
>> The objects in my DB are quite complex, so something like that might
>> actually be happening.
> 
> Hello
> 
> my suggestions might be silly, but in case… :
> 
> 1- is that that you modify a lot of objects (and big objects) in which 
> case savepoints may not save you (as my wild guess is that savepoints 
> will only drop objects participating in computation but not modified). 
> If it's just re-indexing it's strange as the only thing changing would 
> normally be the index.
> 
> 2- if it's a kind of migration for your database, do you really need to 
> have it done in one transaction. Could you save your database, run your 
> migration in multiple commit (transaction.commit() instead of 
> transaction.savepoint()) then if it goes wrong, restore old file and if 
> it's ok, well it's ok :-)
> 
> Hope it helps,
> 
> Alex
> 
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