ose who preach it but truly are bluffing are burning their employees out. Eventually they leave. We are humans, build that into the system and let us relax outsid
. The data wasn’t increasing so there must have been some memory leak.
It’s not so easy for a Python application to leak memory. Usually there are three scenarios:
1. some low level C library is leaking
2. your Python code have global lists or dicts that grow over time, and you forgot to remove the objects after use
3. there are some reference cycles in your app
Today in Washington, DC, experts from more than 30 US and international cyber security organizations jointly released the consensus list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors that lead to security bugs and that enable cyber espionage and cyber crime.
D. Bernstein. Daniel J. Bernstein
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science (M/C 249), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 606077045, USA, (November 2007)