[pylucene-dev] garbage collector

[Andi Vajda]

The Java System.gc() method is available in PyLucene. As usual, calling it is 
only a hint to the garbage collector which may ignore it.
Calling python's gc.collect() first would be a good idea.

Andi..

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Yura Smolsky wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Is there a way to start garbage collector manually to free memory
> taken by PyLucene objects?
> I have IndexSearcher's object with size of 2Gb. When I want to
> recreate this object I would like to free existent one and then create
> new one.
>
> i = IndexSearcher(fsDir)
>
> # perfom some searches
> ...
>
> i.close()
> del i
>
> # mem is still busy by old object
> # we need to remove old object from memory.
>
> i = IndexSearcher(fsDir)
> i.search(..)
>
> # here we have memory occupied by two big objects
>
> Yura Smolsky.
>
>
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