For the record, if you want to reduce memory footprint of Python on a x86-64 bit, you can use the "x32" ABI for which Debian/Ubuntu provide some support.
(install the required base packages and use CFLAGS=-mx32 LDFLAGS=-mx32) Regards Antoine. Le Sun, 6 Oct 2013 17:32:37 +0200, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> a écrit : > Hi, > > Slowly, I'm trying to see if it would be possible to reduce the memory > footprint of Python using the tracemalloc module. > > First, I noticed that linecache can allocate more than 2 MB. What do > you think of adding a registry of "clear cache" functions? For > exemple, re.purge() and linecache.clearcache(). gc.collect() clears > free lists. I don't know if gc.collect() should be related to this new > registy (clear all caches) or not. > > The dictionary of interned Unicode strings can be large: up to 1.5 MB > (with +30,000 strings). Just the dictionary, excluding size of > strings. Is the size normal or not? Using tracemalloc, this dictionary > is usually to largest memory block. > > unittest doesn't look to release memory (the TestCase class) after the > execution of a test. > > test_import.test_module_with_large_stack() creates a large Python > module and import it, but it does not unload it. > > Should I open a separated issue for each idea to track them in the bug > tracker, or a global issue? > > Victor _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
