[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Hi all, and thanks for reading ! > > I'm using Python 2.4.2 with an embedded platform (16MB RAM) running > Linux 2.6.20. > My main script use a thread for some reasons (more precisely a > periodic timer within a separate module). > While looking at the memory consumption, here's what i found : > > PID USER STATUS RSS PPID %CPU %MEM COMMAND > 171 root R 384 164 1.5 2.6 top > 218 root R 4172 217 0.1 29.1 main_script.py > 216 root S 4172 180 0.0 29.1 main_script.py > 217 root S 4172 216 0.0 29.1 main_script.py > > When creating the thread, Python forks 2 times and thus consume me > around 60% of RAM ! > > Is it a normal behaviour while using threads ??? > > It's very critical, am i missed something ?
Yes. That some linuxes list each thread as one process. No need to worry... Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
