On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a script that consumes more and more memory as it runs. It has > no globals and the large data structures go out of scope often so > should be garbage collected. I've looked at the most likely suspects > with sys.getsizeof and they are not growing in size. I did this: > > sum([sys.getsizeof(o) for o in gc.get_objects()]) > > And I can see it getting larger and larger. But I want to see what it > is that is causing this. My thought was to put all the objects in a > dict with their sizes and compare them as the program runs and report > on the one that are growing. But I can't get the name of the object > from gc.get_objects only the id. > > Anyone have any thoughts on how I can monitor the variables' memory > usage as the script runs?
This is application-specific, but sometimes it helps to look at the objects' types, or even their values. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
