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From: Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Improper creating of logger instances or a Memory Leak?
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:29:53 +0000 (UTC)
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foobar <wjshipman <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I've run across a memory leak in a long running process which I can't
> determine if its my issue or if its the logger.

As Chris Torek said, it's not a good idea to create a logger for each thread. A
logger name represents a place in your application; typically, a module, or
perhaps some part of a module. If you want to include information in the log to
see what different threads are doing, do that using the information provided
here:

http://docs.python.org/howto/logging-cookbook.html#adding-contextual-information-to-your-logging-output

Regards,

Vinay Sajip