Tracking memory usage and object life time.

2007-09-26 Thread Berteun Damman
Hello, I have programmed some python script that loads a graph (the mathemical one with vertices and edges) into memory, does some transformations on it, and then tries to find shortest paths in this graph, typically several tens of thousands. This works fine. Then I made a test for this, so I

Re: Tracking memory usage and object life time.

2007-09-26 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Berteun Damman wrote: When I run a test, I disable the garbage collection during the test run (as is adviced), but just before starting a test I instruct the garbage collector to collect. Running the test without disabling the garbage collect doesn't show any difference though. Did you

Re: Tracking memory usage and object life time.

2007-09-26 Thread Berteun Damman
On Sep 26, 2:31 pm, Bjoern Schliessmann usenet- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you check the return value of gc.collect? Also, try using other insight facilities provided by the gc module. gc.collect states it cannot find any unreachable objects. Meanwhile the number of objects the garbage

Re: Tracking memory usage and object life time.

2007-09-26 Thread Istvan Albert
On Sep 26, 8:06 am, Berteun Damman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that have been created after I don't need them anymore. I furthermore don't really see why there would be references to these larger objects left. (I can be mistaken of course). This could be tricky because you have a graph that