Afternoon Guys,
I've got what I would consider to be a strange memory leak within an application I've been working on. When the application is running the consumed system memory creeps up slowly, getting higher and higher. However, when looking at 'top' to display the memory allocation for all the applications, the actual assigned memory to the 'python' process doesn't appear to change, it consistently looks like: 2414 root 20 0 9516 6316 3148 S 0.0 2.5 0:03.62 python However the currently used memory for the entire system, shown here: Mem: 256760k total, 35588k used, 221172k free, 2096k buffers Continues to escalate until the system runs out of memory. I can be pretty sure that this is something to do with my application as whenever the app isn't running then the memory usage doesn't increase. An additional strangeness to this is that when my application is killed, the memory doesn't drop back down again? Is that normal? My understanding of a memory leak was that when the application dies the memory will be freed back up again. Can any offer any suggestions as to what is causing this problem? Is it perhaps not my actual application but something I'm calling from within it? Cheers, Robert
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