Am 06.10.2013 17:32, schrieb Victor Stinner: > Hi, > > Slowly, I'm trying to see if it would be possible to reduce the memory > footprint of Python using the tracemalloc module. > > First, I noticed that linecache can allocate more than 2 MB. What do > you think of adding a registry of "clear cache" functions? For > exemple, re.purge() and linecache.clearcache(). gc.collect() clears > free lists. I don't know if gc.collect() should be related to this new > registy (clear all caches) or not. > > The dictionary of interned Unicode strings can be large: up to 1.5 MB > (with +30,000 strings). Just the dictionary, excluding size of > strings. Is the size normal or not? Using tracemalloc, this dictionary > is usually to largest memory block. > > unittest doesn't look to release memory (the TestCase class) after the > execution of a test. > > test_import.test_module_with_large_stack() creates a large Python > module and import it, but it does not unload it.
That does not seem very important, except if people execute test_import on every interpreter startup :) > Should I open a separated issue for each idea to track them in the bug > tracker, or a global issue? Since the points you mention here are so diverse, it would be good to have separate issues. cheers, Georg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com