I wrote a content filter for Postfix with Python, https://github.com/jablko/cookie
It should get started once, and hopefully run for a long time - so I'm interested in how it uses memory: 1) How does the amount of memory used change as it runs? 2) How does the amount of memory used change as I continue to hack on it, and change the code? My naive thought was that I'd periodically append to a file, the virtual memory size from /proc/[pid]/stat and a timestamp. From this a could make a graph of the amount of memory used as my content filter runs, and I could compare two graphs to get a clue whether this amount changed as I continue to hack - but some Googling quickly revealed that measuring memory is actually quite complicated? Neither the virtual memory size nor the "resident set size" accurately measure the amount of memory used by a process Has anyone else measured the memory used by a Python program? How did you do it? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
