Question #105233 on Graphite changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/105233
chrismd posted a new comment: In my experience, most long-running python applications tend to grow larger over time at least to a certain point. Python is fairly liberal about memory usage, particularly because allocating objects is expensive. In many cases python opts to keep unused objects in memory for later reuse rather than to free the memory back to the OS. For more insight, take a peek at this article http://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-doesnt- python-release-the-memory-when-i-delete-a-large-object.htm Carbon in particular deals with a *lot* of number objects, and Python never actually frees numbers. I've never run out of memory because of this myself. I have some very long running carbon processes that are at about 1G rss, that is a lot of memory but they don't seem to ever need more than that (at least on my system, YMMV). -- You received this question notification because you are a member of graphite-dev, which is an answer contact for Graphite. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~graphite-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
