Actual question is here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25200475/sqlalchmey-memory-leak-how-to-free-memory
What measures should I take to cleanup old session objects? Isn't session.close() is sufficient? or Is it something to do with pyramid? Sqlalchmey setup:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------def get_db(request): maker = request.registry.dbmaker session = maker() @profile def cleanup(request): _session = request.db if request.exception is not None: _session.rollback() else: _session.commit() _session.close() # del _session # No memory released request.add_finished_callback(cleanup) return session def main(global_config, **settings): : : config.registry.dbmaker = sessionmaker(bind=engine) config.add_request_method(get_db, name='db', reify=True) : : Pyramid app request handler is like @view_config(route_name='list_employees', renderer='json')def employees(request): session = request.db office = session.query(Office).get(1) employees = [x.name for x in office.employees] return employees Now the problem is, In every request to list_employees the memory is growing. the size of increase in memory is almost equal to size of office.employees. Debug: request 1 starts with memory utilization = 10MB request 1 ends with memory utilization = 18MB request 2 starts with memory utilization = 18MB request 2 ends with memory utilization = 26MB request 3 starts with memory utilization = 26MB request 3 ends with memory utilization = 34MB : : Grows eventually employees = [x.name for x in office.employees]This is the line where about 8-10MB memory utilized To debug, I added *__del__* method in Employ and Office models, looks like they are deleting. Also tried session.expunge(office), del office and gc.collect() I am debugging memory consumption using https://pypi.python.org/pypi/memory_profiler Also I am using https://pypi.python.org/pypi/transaction is other requests. I have removed debug toolbar also -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.