Hello, Croepha <croepha <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Question: > > Does python in general terms (apart from extensions or gc manipulation), exhibit a "high water" type leak of allocated memory in recent python versions (2.7+)?
It is not a leak. It is a quite common pattern of memory fragmentation. The article is wrong in assuming that Python doesn't return the memory to the OS. Python does return its empty memory pools to the OS, however the OS itself may not be able to release that memory, because of heap fragmentation. As the article mentions, this was improved (mostly fixed?) in 3.3. Regards Antoine. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
