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[Ferdinand Gassauer <office@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello!

Having installed an instance (still openerp 6.1) on a auto-scale cloud 
server I am interested to reduce memory usage (night, weekends...) for 
which I get charged.

A possible answer I found here:
http://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-doesnt-python-release-the-memory-when-i-delete-a-large-object.htm

If the quote:
/"For speed", Python maintains an internal free list for integer 
objects. Unfortunately, that free list is both immortal and unbounded in 
size. floats also use an immortal & unbounded free list./
is true - memory will never decrease, as openerp/odoo heavily uses lists 
to store huge number of ids (account_move_lines, stock_moves, ...).

Obviously a restart of the server will solve the problem, but I would be 
interested if other solutions exist.

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Ferdinand Gassauer
Eigentümer
ChriCar Bet. u. Ber. GmbH