Changed to delete the whole dict and added note about similar leak in

sample xmp.py so it appears to be in the fuse bindings

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/FuseArchive/ChunkFile.py b/FuseArchive/ChunkFile.py
index c33ae73..8e4f2eb 100644
--- a/FuseArchive/ChunkFile.py
+++ b/FuseArchive/ChunkFile.py
@@ -407,10 +407,17 @@ class ChunkFile(object):
 
         # There is some kind of mem leak, ChunkFile objects end up in a
         # tuple of [obj,True] for every object written and never get freed,
-        # maybe a fuse bug?
-        del self.chunks
-        del self.chunk
-        del self.original_chunks
+        # maybe a fuse bug?  Just trying to minimize the damage here by
+        # freeing the big chunks of memory.
+        #
+        # Note that you can see this same problem in xmp.py, if you run it
+        # in pdb then use objgraph to see the top objects XmpFile will be
+        # near the top with this odd reference in a tuple that is owned by
+        # nothing
+        #del self.chunks
+        #del self.chunk
+        #del self.original_chunks
+        self.__dict__ = {}
 
     def _fflush(self):
         if self.wr and self.modified: