I found that it was caused by not by python but by /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive, the same problem as that described in http://illiterat.livejournal.com/4615.html.
William 在 2013年7月18日星期四UTC+8下午12时45分01秒，William Bai写道： > Hi: > > > > Previously, we found that our python scripts consume too much memory. So I > use python's resource module to restrict RLIMIT_AS's soft limit and hard > limit to 200M. > > On my RHEL5.3(i386)+python2.6.2, it works OK. But on CentOS > 6.2(x86_64)+python2.6.6, it reports memory error(exceeding 200M). > > > > And I tested with a very small script, and result is out of my expect, it > still use too much memory on my CentOS 6.2 python: > > import time > > time.sleep(200) > > > > I use guppy and memory_profiler to see the memory usage and see that > python objects just use about 6M memory both on RHEL5.3(i386)+python2.6 and > CentOS 6.2(x86_64)+python2.6. But when I cat /proc/<pid>/status. I found that > though VmRss is not very large on both machines. But the VmSize on CentOS > 6.2(x86_64)+python2.6 is 140M-180M, while on my RHEL5.3+python2.6, the VmSize > is just 6M. And I tested on CentOS 5.7(x86_64)+python2.4.3, the VmSize is 70M. > > > > I could understand that 64 bit machines will occupy more virtual memory > than that on 32 bit, because the length of some types are not the same. But I > don't know why they differs so greatly(6M to 180M), Or is this only caused by > that python2.6 on CentOS 6.2's memory allocation is different from python's > default one? Could you kindly give me some clues? Thank you very much. > > > > Best Regards > > William -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
