Opened 10 years ago
Last modified 9 years ago
#23623 closed Cleanup/optimization
ModelChoiceField generates unused temporary cache — at Initial Version
Reported by: | Thomas C | Owned by: | nobody |
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Component: | Forms | Version: | dev |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | ModelChoiceField, admin |
Cc: | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed | |
Has patch: | yes | Needs documentation: | no |
Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
There is a huge memory consumption when using some admin pages with big production datasets (see also https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-users/YYlLWyBH_go).
I looked into the ModelChoiceIterator
used to generate the choices for a ModelChoiceField
, and noticed that a temporary queryset cache was generated.
With the proposed PR, this cache is no longer generated. After applying the patch, I noticed that the maximum memory usage dropped from ~200MB to ~150MB for a model with about 30 000 instances.