Re: Python resident memory retention & Evan Jones' improvements

2009-10-03 Thread Matt Ernst
On Oct 2, 4:47 pm, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > There are two things you need to be aware of in this situation: > > - not all Python's memory is allocated through Python's specialised >    malloc() - int and float objects in particular (in 2.x at least) are >    allocated directly via a privately man

Python resident memory retention & Evan Jones' improvements

2009-10-02 Thread Matt Ernst
My apologies in advance if this has been addressed before. Google does not presently seem to return search results for this group from more than a couple of months ago. I have some long-running Python processes that slowly increase in resident memory size, and whose resident size goes down only wh