[Victor Stinner <vstin...@redhat.com>] > I guess that INADA-san used pyperformance --track-memory. > > pyperf --track-memory doc: > "--track-memory: get the memory peak usage. it is less accurate than > tracemalloc, but has a lower overhead. On Linux, compute the sum of > Private_Clean and Private_Dirty memory mappings of /proc/self/smaps. > ...
So I'll take that as meaning essentially that it's reporting what RSS would report if it ignored shared pages (so peak # of private pages actually backed by physical RAM). Clear as mud how MADV_FREE affects that. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/6H7HP6TXKGZBIPVNBTLULGYEDFJKVFCQ/