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

I can't speak for the memory use in Python, but considering your error message, the error most likely stems from the fact that a blobstore backed file in GAE can't be open for more than around 30 seconds so you have to close and reopen it periodically if your processing takes longer.