Hi All,
I thought this was fixed back in Python 2.5, but I guess not?
So, I'm playing in an interactive session:
>>> from xlrd import open_workbook
>>> b = open_workbook('some.xls',pickleable=0,formatting_info=1)
At this point, top shows the process usage for python to be about 500Mb.
That's okay, I'd expect that, b is big ;-)
>>> del b
However, it still does now, maybe the garbage collector needs a kick?
>>> import gc
>>> gc.collect()
702614
Nope, still 500Mb. What gives? How can I make Python give the memory its
no longer using back to the OS?
Okay, so maybe this is something to do with it being an interactive
session? So I wrote this script:
from xlrd import open_workbook
import gc
b = open_workbook('some.xls',pickleable=0,formatting_info=1)
print 'opened'
raw_input()
del b
print 'deleted'
raw_input()
gc.collect()
print 'gc'
raw_input()
The raw inputs are there so I can check the memory usage in top.
Even after the gc, Python still hasn't given the memory back to the OS :-(
What am I doing wrong?
Chris
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