In Google App Engine, how to I reduce memory consumption as I write a file out to the blobstore rather than exceed the soft memory limit?

Question

I\'m using the blobstore to backup and recovery entities in csv format. The process is working well for all of my smaller models. However, once I start to work on models with mo

Answer 1

In What is the proper way to write to the Google App Engine blobstore as a file in Python 2.5 a similar problem was reported. In an answer there it is suggested that you should try inserting gc.collect() calls occasionally. Given what I know of the files API's implementation I think that is spot on. Give it a try!