I was wondering what the approximate amount of memory needed to load a Python interpreter (only, no objects, no scripts, no nothing else) in a Linux 2.6 environment. According to ps, it appears to be 3312 bytes, which seems absurdly low to me. However, when I check the size of my Python executable, it looks like it is only about 5600 bytes in size, so maybe this is reasonable?
Right now, I currently have one bare Python interpreter running and no other Python programs. Here is the output of ps -aux | grep python (headers added for readability): USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND paul 17561 0.1 0.6 14616 3312 pts/2 S+ 02:33 0:00 python paul 17569 0.0 0.1 2600 520 pts/3 R+ 02:34 0:00 grep python If I am reading this right, it says the Python interpreter itself is using 3312 bytes of memory, but has 14616 bytes of shared memory it can access (which, i assume, is mostly shared libraries). Here's my ls -l /usr/bin/python2.4: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5424 Jul 21 08:02 /usr/bin/python2.4 Am I interpreting this stuff more or less correctly? Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
