Thanks for your help everybody! I'm very happy to have learned about mmap. On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 3:27 PM Richard Damon <rich...@damon-family.org> wrote:
> On 10/8/18 8:11 AM, Ram Rachum wrote: > > " Windows will aggressively fill up your RAM in cases like this > > because after all why not? There's no use to having memory just > > sitting around unused." > > > > Two questions: > > > > 1. Is the "why not" sarcastic, as in you're agreeing it's a waste? > > 2. Will this be different on Linux? Which command do I run on Linux to > > verify that the process isn't taking too much RAM? > > > > > > Thanks, > > Ram. > I would say the 'why not' isn't being sarcastic but pragmatic. (And I > would expect Linux to work similarly). After all if you have a system > with X amount of memory, and total memory demand for the other processes > is 10% of X, what is the issue with letting one process use 80% of X > with memory usages that is easy to clear out if something else wants it. > A read only page that is already backed on the disk is trivial to make > available for another usage. > > Memory just sitting idle is the real waste. > > -- > Richard Damon > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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