On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:24 PM, CFK <cfkar...@gmail.com> wrote: > When > I draw memory usage graphs, I see sawtooth waves to the memory usage which > suggest that the garbage builds up until the GC kicks in and reaps the > garbage.
Interesting. How do you actually measure this memory usage? Often, when a GC frees up memory, it's merely made available for subsequent allocations, rather than actually given back to the system - all it takes is one still-used object on a page and the whole page has to be retained. As such, a "create and drop" usage model would tend to result in memory usage going up for a while, but then remaining stable, as all allocations are being fulfilled from previously-released memory that's still owned by the process. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
