On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote: > I'm having trouble with some python processes that are using 3GB+ of memory > but when I inspect them with either heapy or meliae, injected via pyrasite, > those tools only report total memory usage to be 119Mb. > > This feels like the old "python high water mark" problem, but I thought that > was fixed in 2.6/3.0? > Under what circumstances can a Python process still exhibit high memory > usage that tools like heapy don't know about?
Which Python version are you experiencing this with? I know that in Python 2.7, having many floats (and I think also ints) active at once creates a high water situation. Python 2.7 is what I have experience with -- with heap sizes around 40 GB sometimes. _______________________________________________ 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
