Do you have a page file? The Mem column should be RAM usage and not total working set. Some of it could be swapped to the page file. A free tool like process explorer can give you better informaton than the task manager.
"rbt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Would a Python process consume more memory on a PC with lots of memory? > > For example, say I have the same Python script running on two WinXP > computers that both have Python 2.4.0. One computer has 256 MB of Ram > while the other has 2 GB of Ram. On the machine with less Ram, the process > takes about 1 MB of Ram. On the machine with more Ram, it uses 9 MB of > Ram. > > Is this normal and expected behavior? > > Thanks, > > rbt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list