Dieter Maurer wrote: > Could you elaborate a bit? > > Large peak memory use means that the application got a large > address space. What garantees that the residual memory use > (after the peak) is compact and not evenly spread across > the address space.
nothing guarantees that, of course. but I've never seen that happen. and I'm basing my comments on observed behaviour in real systems, not on theoretical worst-case scenarios. every time I've seen serious fragmentation, it's been related to leaks, not peak memory usage. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
