> In my web application (Django) I call a function for some request which > loads like 500 MB data from the database uses it to do some calculation and > stores the output in disk. I just wonder even after this request is served > the apache / python process is still shows using that 500 MB, why is it so? > Can't I release that memory?
Are you talking about resident or virtual memory here? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list