[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I am starting to have a look to a python program that does not free > memory (I am using python 2.4.3). As I have read about a new memory > management in python 2.5 (http://evanjones.ca/python-memory.html) I > decided to try the program with the new version. > With the new version of python the memory consumption is the same. Now > I am asking myself if python 2.5 has any improving in memory > management or maybe not yet.
the new mechanism only helps if you temporarily create large structures and release them quickly; it does not help if you're *fragmenting* the memory. Python requests memory from the underlying system in blocks (called "arenas"), and it can only re- turn them if they're entirely empty. (this is discussed on the page you link to, and the various posts it links to). </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
