[Baypiggies] Watching how much memory my Python program is taking up

[Paul Hoffman]

Greetings. I have a Python 3.4 program that will keep eating up memory
until I tell it to stop; in short, it uses asyncio to launch as many
coroutines as the machine can handle. I want to determine approximately how
much memory I am using at this moment so I know when to stop consuming more
and having the box run out of memory (I already have swapping turned off).

Are there well-known patterns for this? I looked in a bunch of places and
found nothing, which kinda surprised me. I recognize that it is unlikely
that there is a cross-OS method for this, but I would be happy with just
something that says "I'm now taking up a total of 3.7 gig" and I can do the
"how much is too much" calculation by hand.

Pointers are appreciated.

--Paul Hoffman
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