Hi all I suspect I may be missing something vital here, but Python's garbage collection doesn't seem to work as I expect it to. Here's a small test program which shows the problem on python 2.4 and 2.5:
$ python2.5 Python 2.5 (release25-maint, Dec 9 2006, 15:33:01) [GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-20)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> (at this point, Python is using 15MB) >>> a = range(int(1e7)) >>> (at this point, Python is using 327MB) >>> a = None >>> (at this point, Python is using 251MB) >>> import gc >>> gc.collect() 0 >>> (at this point, Python is using 252MB) Is there something I've forgotten to do? Why is Python still using such a lot of memory? Thanks! -- I'm at CAMbridge, not SPAMbridge -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
