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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the investigation.
I did some investigation myself, and it turns out that writing new
metadata does leak memory, and this is not linked to exiv2's bug 677.
I reported a new bug, https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyexiv2/+bug/581787,
and will work to fix it ASAP.

Cheers,

Olivier

> I did some more investigating and discovered that there is a known 
> performance issue with exiv2 .19 hanging on nikon jpgs.  The exiv2 svn 
> fixed this bug (with .19 takes about 20secs to write a tag vs .1s with 
> svn-exiv2).  I am also hoping that this resolved the "memory leak" in 
> pyexiv2.
> 
> The memory leak that I mentioned before only occurred when pyexiv2 was 
> processing problematic photos, which in turn happened to be all my nikon 
> dslr photos.
> 
> link to bug report
> http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/show/677
> 
> hope this helps as well
> iform
> 
> ps.  thank you for the wonderful python binding.