Anthony Sottile added the comment: 3.4 seems happier:
asottile@work:/tmp$ rm *.pyc; python3.4 repro.py ready <module 'city_hoods' from '/tmp/city_hoods.py'> 77472 VmHWM: 77472 kB VmRSS: 65228 kB asottile@work:/tmp$ python3.4 repro.py ready <module 'city_hoods' from '/tmp/city_hoods.py'> 77472 VmHWM: 77472 kB VmRSS: 65232 kB The nasty result above is from 2.7: $ python Python 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56) [GCC 4.8.2] on linux2 3.3 also seems to have the same exaggerated problem: $ rm *.pyc -f; python3.3 repro.py ready <module 'city_hoods' from '/tmp/city_hoods.py'> 1112996 VmHWM: 1112996 kB VmRSS: 133468 kB asottile@work:/tmp$ python3.3 repro.py ready <module 'city_hoods' from '/tmp/city_hoods.py'> 81392 VmHWM: 81392 kB VmRSS: 69304 kB $ python3.3 Python 3.3.6 (default, Jan 28 2015, 17:27:09) [GCC 4.8.2] on linux So seems the leaky behaviour was fixed at some point, any ideas of what change fixed it and is there a possibility of backporting it to 2.7? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24085> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
