Disabling the python GC like that isn't that crazy. They didn't add gc.disable() because you shouldn't use it. The crazy part is some library calling the gc dir

Disabling the python GC like that isn't that crazy. They didn't add gc.disable() because you shouldn't use it. The crazy part is some library calling the gc directly without a way to disable it. That's just bad form. A lot of games in gc-ed languages turn the gc off, and then manually run the gc whenever there's some spare time in a frame. The same thing should more or less work for a server handling web requests too. Maybe run it after every request or perhaps every couple of requests depending on memory usage.