From 0a9316a59e2994599f0782e3b840eda529fb696d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:09:06 +0000
Subject: Bug #228075 - Explicitly call gc.collect() to try and free memory
 when checking for blockers. This avoids a heap overflow that triggers 'Cannot
 allocate memory' errors (reported with python-2.5). (trunk r10717)

svn path=/main/branches/2.1.2/; revision=10722
---
 bin/emerge | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'bin/emerge')

diff --git a/bin/emerge b/bin/emerge
index 18a4b5c39..822df6bc4 100755
--- a/bin/emerge
+++ b/bin/emerge
@@ -5917,6 +5917,12 @@ class MergeTask(object):
 		if self._opts_ignore_blockers.intersection(self.myopts):
 			return None
 
+		# Call gc.collect() here to avoid heap overflow that
+		# triggers 'Cannot allocate memory' errors (reported
+		# with python-2.5).
+		import gc
+		gc.collect()
+
 		blocker_dblinks = []
 		for blocking_pkg in self._blocker_db[
 			new_pkg.root].findInstalledBlockers(new_pkg,
@@ -5930,6 +5936,8 @@ class MergeTask(object):
 				self.pkgsettings[blocking_pkg.root], treetype="vartree",
 				vartree=self.trees[blocking_pkg.root]["vartree"]))
 
+		gc.collect()
+
 		return blocker_dblinks
 
 	def merge(self, mylist, favorites, mtimedb):
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