Mark Dickinson wrote:
and got the expected memory usage for my Python process, as displayed by top: memory usage went up to nearly 1Gb after each assignment to b, then dropped down to 19 Mb or so after each 'del b'. I get similar results under Python 2.5.
I get the same results on Linux: Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:58:18) [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import os, psutil pi = psutil.Process(os.getpid()) [mem/1024.**2 for mem in pi.get_memory_info()]
[4.71875, 28.2578125]
s = 'x' * (10**9) [mem/1024.**2 for mem in pi.get_memory_info()]
[958.40234375, 981.93359375]
del s [mem/1024.**2 for mem in pi.get_memory_info()]
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