@"sstein...@gmail.com" <sstein...@gmail.com> "See this article for some more info about the reported sizes of things: http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/sys/limits.html";
I posted this question on stack overflow. I now have a better appreciation of ssteinerX suggestions of the above link and guppy, I also had pympler suggested. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2306523/reading-text-files-into-list-then-storing-in-dictionay-fills-system-memory-a Thanks again *Vincent Davis 720-301-3003 * vinc...@vincentdavis.net my blog <http://vincentdavis.net> | LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentdavis> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 7:15 PM, sstein...@gmail.com <sstein...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Feb 20, 2010, at 8:05 PM, Vincent Davis wrote: > > Code is below, The files are about 5mb and 230,000 rows. When I have 43 > files of them and when I get to the 35th (reading it in) my system gets so > slow that it is nearly functionless. I am on a mac and activity monitor > shows that python is using 2.99GB of memory (of 4GB). (python 2.6 64bit). > The getsizeof() returns 6424 bytes for the alldata . So I am not sure what > is happening. > > > See this article for some more info about the reported sizes of things: > http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/sys/limits.html > > S > >
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