Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net>: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > >> not "aim for 400MB because the garbage collector is only 10% >> efficient". Get yourself a better garbage collector. Employ Veolia or >> something. > > It's about giving GC room (space- and timewise) to operate. Also, you > don't want your memory consumption to hit the RAM ceiling even for a > moment.
And, BTW, my rule of thumb came from experiences with the Hotspot JRE. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list