[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/2] support/scripts/pkg-stats: add support for CVE reporting

[Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot@gmail.com> writes:

Hi,

 > In the memory usage, RES first increased to ~4G, and then dropped back
 > to 2.2G. I think this is the Python garbage collector kicking in,
 > _after_ the new file is loaded.
 > So the worst case memory usage is roughly the size of two largest
 > subsequent years.

 > Doing some quick google search, I stumbled upon the 'pandas' python
 > package, which has a read_json function too. During a quick test, it
 > seemed to be more memory efficient, and the total memory size on
 > subsequent reads stayed in the 2.x GB range.

 > content = pandas.read_json('/tmp/nvd/nvdcve-1.0-2019.json.gz')
 > content = pandas.read_json('/tmp/nvd/nvdcve-1.0-2018.json.gz')

 > In the full test of pkg-stats, I still saw a peak memory usage near
 > the end, but it 'seemed' better :-)

Or perhaps something that doesn't load the entire json structure into
memory? Jsonslicer seems like a possible solution:

https://pypi.org/project/jsonslicer/

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard