Fix a major memory leak when using the libevent or libev hubs. Timers were not being removed from the hub after they fired. (Thanks Agusto Becciu).

NEWS

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ Fixes some long-standing bugs where sometimes failures in accept() or connect()
 
 0.6.1: Added eventlet.tpool.killall. Blocks until all of the threadpool threads have been told to exit and join()ed. Meant to be used to clean up the threadpool on exit or if calling execv. Used by Spawning.
 
+0.6.2: Fix a major memory leak when using the libevent or libev hubs. Timers were not being removed from the hub after they fired. (Thanks Agusto Becciu).
+
 0.5.x
 =====
 

eventlet/timer.py

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ class Timer(object):
         This timer will not be run unless it is scheduled in a runloop by
         calling timer.schedule() or runloop.add_timer(timer).
         """
+        self.impltimer = None
         self.cancelled = False
         self.seconds = seconds
         self.tpl = cb, args, kw
@@ -72,6 +73,9 @@ class Timer(object):
     def __call__(self, *args):
         if not self.called:
             self.called = True
+            if self.impltimer is not None:
+                del get_hub().timers_by_greenlet[self.greenlet][self]
+
             cb, args, kw = self.tpl
             cb(*args, **kw)
         

setup.py

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from setuptools import find_packages, setup
 
 setup(
     name='eventlet',
-    version='0.6.1',
+    version='0.6.2pre',
     description='Coroutine-based networking library',
     author='Linden Lab',
     author_email='eventletdev@lists.secondlife.com',