The latest Python release 2.5 includes improvements to the memory manager and *may* work better for you, it all depends on the root cause of the problem. For more details, see the 5th bullet on this page <http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/ports.html>.
/Jean Brouwers Eddie wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a method to profile memory usage in my python program. > The program provides web service and therefore is intended to run for a > long time. However, the memory usage tends to increase all the time, > until in a day or two the system cannot handle it any more and starts > to do constant swapping. Is there a way to look at which objects or > variables are taking the huge amount of memory space? > > Thanks, > > Eddie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list