I am trying to understand Python's garbage collection mechanism. I have a long running program (actually a shell extension) that needs to allocate large arrays occasionally, which I'd del after use, then call gc.collect() to collect them. But although gc.get_objects() reported the arrays have been collected (also confirmed they didn't end up in gc.garbage), but the memory footprint (VM size) remain the same, as if the memory was never freed and return to heap.
Appreciate if anyone can help shed some light on this. Google didn't hit much useful websites on this topic. FYI, I am using ActivePython 2.5 on XP SP2. Thanks. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
