Hey all, I'm running some data analysis scripts that, due to the input file size, tend to be quite memory intensive. I've been reading up on Python's memory allocation (I'm using 2.4 and am locked into it, so I don't have the new fixes in 2.5) but because of the nature of its looping I don't think its losing much memory because of some of the deallocation issues - it will reuse the ints and lists that Python is retaining references to.
Because of this I suspect there are other memory leaks, and I'm trying to find out where; some method through which I could monitor memory usage as the script runs would be extremely helpful, even if it just prints the amount of memory python is using every time I call a particular command. I've tried using the profile module; the output didn't seem particularly helpful in terms of memory usage. In case OS-specific commands are required, all the machines it will run on are using Windows XP. Thanks, -- Aneesh Goel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
