I'm observing a strange memory usage pattern with python strings on Freebsd. Consider the following session. Idea is to create a list which holds some strings so that cumulative characters in the list is 100MB.
>>> l = [] >>> for i in xrange(100000): ... l.append(str(i) * (1000/len(str(i)))) This uses around 100MB of memory as expected and 'del l' will clear that. >>> for i in xrange(20000): ... l.append(str(i) * (5000/len(str(i)))) This is using 165MB of memory. I really don't understand where the additional memory usage is coming from. [Size of both lists are same] Python 2.6.4 on FreeBSD 7.2. On Linux and windows both uses around 100mb memory only. Regards, aMit _______________________________________________ freebsd-python@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-python To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-python-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
