Re: baffling memory usage

2008-10-17 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Redfern wrote: > My python code runs nicely when launched manually from a login shell, ps > shows its using 11MB or so of memory. > > However, when I try to launch the same code from a startup script, it > uses over 22MB and the system grinds to a halt. Specifi

baffling memory usage

2008-10-16 Thread Tim Redfern
Hi I'm having an issue that is probably obvious to somebody here but its baffling me.. I'm using python (2.5.1) on an embedded linux sytem system (kernel 2.6.19 I think) with only 32MB memory (for an art project). My python code runs nicely when launched manually from a login shell, ps shows its