Re: Memory usage of an 'empty' python interpreter

2006-08-16 Thread John Machin
Ant wrote: > > > Are you sure ps is reporting in bytes not KB? The bare interpreter in > > > Windows is 3368KB. > > > > Where did you get that from? With Python 2.4.3, on my machine (Win XP > > SP2): > > > > C:\junk>dir \python24\python* > > [snip] > > 29/03/2006 05:35 PM 4,608 python

Re: Memory usage of an 'empty' python interpreter

2006-08-16 Thread Ant
> > Are you sure ps is reporting in bytes not KB? The bare interpreter in > > Windows is 3368KB. > > Where did you get that from? With Python 2.4.3, on my machine (Win XP > SP2): > > C:\junk>dir \python24\python* > [snip] > 29/03/2006 05:35 PM 4,608 python.exe > 29/03/2006 05:35 PM

Re: Memory usage of an 'empty' python interpreter

2006-08-16 Thread John Machin
Ant wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I was wondering what the approximate amount of memory needed to load a > > Python interpreter (only, no objects, no scripts, no nothing else) in a > > Linux 2.6 environment. According to ps, it appears to be 3312 bytes, > > which seems absurdly low to me.

Re: Memory usage of an 'empty' python interpreter

2006-08-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering what the approximate amount of memory needed to load a > Python interpreter (only, no objects, no scripts, no nothing else) in a > Linux 2.6 environment. According to ps, it appears to be 3312 bytes, > which seems absurdly low to me. Your spidey sense is

Re: Memory usage of an 'empty' python interpreter

2006-08-16 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
> neokosmos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering what the approximate amount of memory needed to load a > Python interpreter (only, no objects, no scripts, no nothing else) in a > Linux 2.6 environment. According to ps, it appears to be 3312 bytes, > which seems absurdly low to me.

Re: Memory usage of an 'empty' python interpreter

2006-08-16 Thread Ant
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering what the approximate amount of memory needed to load a > Python interpreter (only, no objects, no scripts, no nothing else) in a > Linux 2.6 environment. According to ps, it appears to be 3312 bytes, > which seems absurdly low to me. However, when I che

Memory usage of an 'empty' python interpreter

2006-08-15 Thread neokosmos
I was wondering what the approximate amount of memory needed to load a Python interpreter (only, no objects, no scripts, no nothing else) in a Linux 2.6 environment. According to ps, it appears to be 3312 bytes, which seems absurdly low to me. However, when I check the size of my Python executabl