On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 1:48 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > >> not "aim for 400MB because the garbage collector is only 10% >> efficient". Get yourself a better garbage collector. Employ Veolia or >> something. > > It's about giving GC room (space- and timewise) to operate. Also, you > don't want your memory consumption to hit the RAM ceiling even for a > moment.
Again, if you'd said to *leave 10% room*, I would be inclined to believe you (eg to use no more than 3.5ish gig when you have four available), but not to leave 90% room. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
