[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 working properly, 3312 bytes is absurdly low. > Here is the output of ps -aux | grep python > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME > COMMAND > paul 17561 0.1 0.6 14616 3312 pts/2 S+ 02:33 0:00 python [SNIP] > If I am reading this right, it says the Python interpreter itself is > using 3312 bytes of memory, but has 14616 bytes of shared memory it can > access (which, i assume, is mostly shared libraries). Nope, ps output for those values is in kilobytes. It's a bit over 3 MB RSS, 14MB shared. > Here's my ls -l /usr/bin/python2.4: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5424 Jul 21 08:02 /usr/bin/python2.4 I'm not sure what's up here (maybe a shell script wrapper?) try "file /usr/bin/python2.4" and "ls -alh /usr/bin/python2.4". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list