"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on Thu, 19 May 2005 09:54:15 +0200: > ... > and unless your operating system is totally braindead, and thus completely > unfit > to run huge enterprise size applications, that doesn't really matter much. > leaks > are problematic, large peak memory use isn't.
Could you elaborate a bit? Large peak memory use means that the application got a large address space. What garantees that the residual memory use (after the peak) is compact and not evenly spread across the address space. While the OS probably is able to reuse complete pages which are either unused for a longer time or at least rarely accessed, it may become nasty when almost every page contains a small amount of heavily used memory. Dieter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
