On May 31, 11:00 am, Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
