Re: [pcp] Patch for Python's pmExtractValue Function

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tom,

----- Original Message -----
> Sorry about the delay in getting back to you all. I've had a number of
> other issues come up over the last few days that have prevented me from
> more fully investigating the issue, which I had hoped to do before
> replying but have not yet.

No problem at all - I believe Stan has strained his back and has been
offline a fair bit as well.

> I am hoping to finally get back to this issue in the morning, my
> timezone, but if you'd like to take a look in the meantime, I would
> welcome it. I'm afraid I don't have a script that's not tightly coupled
> to other resources to share, but calling pmExtractValue with a pmResult
> for a string metric, followed by losing the reference to the returned
> pmAtomValue, will create the leak. The example code at the top of
> pmapi.py should be a good starting point.

OK, thanks!  I've run out of time for today, but hope to look into
it more deeply tomorrow.

cheers.

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Nathan