Re: Python memory handling

On May 31, 11:00 am, Thorsten Kampe <thors...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If it's swapped to disk than this is a big concern. If your Python app
allocates 600 MB of RAM and does not use 550 MB after one minute and
this unused memory gets into the page file then the Operating System
has to allocate and write 550 MB onto your hard disk. Big deal.

You have a long-running python process that allocates 550Mb of _small_
objects and then never again uses more than a tenth of that space?

This is an abstract corner case, and points more to a multi-process
design rather than a flaw in python.

The unbounded size of python's int/float freelists are slightly more
annoying problems, but nearly as trivial.

-Mike

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