On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:08:59 +0800, Simon Wittber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to the above post: > > a) If the allocation is > 256 bytes, call the system malloc. > > b) If the allocation is < 256, use its own malloc implementation, which > > allocates memory in 256 kB chunks and never releases it. > > I imagine this means that large memory allocations are eventually > released back to the operating system. However, in my case, this > appears to be not happening.
There was a recent patch posted to python-dev list which allows python to release memory back to the operating system once the 256kb chunk is no longer used. I'm not saying running a bleeding edge CVS HEAD python plus untested development patches is going to be a solution for you in the short term, but I just wanted to mention it because I'm excited about this limitation disappearing in python :). Regards, Stephen Thorne -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
