How do show_growth deltas behave when memory runs out?

Nobody has claimed this yet.

I'm profiling to find a leak in an API endpoint that runs a complex process. I have objgraph.show_growth report at two or three points inside the endpoint's main method.

Hitting the endpoint over and over, I quickly hit a MemoryError, and for a while large positive deltas are reported, but finally the deltas stop being reported at all.

I guess conceivably this could mean one of two things:
1) There is no positive delta to report: memory is saturated with objects involved and no new ones are created.
2) Objects are being created, but show_growth can't function properly in the given memory, so it doesn't report them.

I don't really understand this library well enough to see which one is more likley, but can you comment as to which one you think it is?

Thanks.

The issue names objgraph.show_growth and repeated calls from an endpoint but no source file, test, or entry point. Reproduce the endpoint until MemoryError occurs, then inspect show_growth's behavior under memory pressure. Done means determining which explanation matches and documenting the observed behavior or a focused fix.

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