From a915814d345cf20a6681663f2e0dbbf63bf4fd72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: galaunay <gaby.launay@protonmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 11:17:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid accumulating jedi processes

Explicitly run the garbage collector after jedi calls.
Apparently it is not done properly on some platforms/configs,
which result in an accumultion of jedi processes eating up the ram.
---
 elpy/jedibackend.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/elpy/jedibackend.py b/elpy/jedibackend.py
index 402bd8502..de08f1191 100644
--- a/elpy/jedibackend.py
+++ b/elpy/jedibackend.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 import sys
 import traceback
 import re
+import gc
 
 import jedi
 
@@ -380,3 +381,7 @@ def _debug(level, str_out):
                             data=data)
         finally:
             jedi.set_debug_function(None)
+            # Explicitly call the garbage collector to avoid
+            # accumulating jedi processes
+            # (see https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/elpy/issues/1481)
+            gc.collect()