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Diffstat (limited to 'devel/management')
| -rwxr-xr-x | devel/management/commands/reporead_inotify.py | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/devel/management/commands/reporead_inotify.py b/devel/management/commands/reporead_inotify.py index 4c865ce..ffd49b8 100755 --- a/devel/management/commands/reporead_inotify.py +++ b/devel/management/commands/reporead_inotify.py @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ correctly. """ import logging +import multiprocessing import os.path import pyinotify import sys @@ -133,6 +134,7 @@ class Database(object): return if self.update_thread: self.update_thread.cancel() + self.update_thread = None self._start_update_countdown() def update(self): @@ -142,8 +144,13 @@ class Database(object): self.updating = True try: - # invoke reporead's primary method - read_repo(self.arch, self.path, {}) + # invoke reporead's primary method. we do this in a separate + # process for memory conservation purposes; these processes grow + # rather large so it is best to free up the memory ASAP. + process = multiprocessing.Process(target=read_repo, + args=[self.arch, self.path, {}]) + process.start() + process.join() finally: logger.debug('Done updating database %s.', self.path) with self.lock: |