<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I remember something about it coming up in some of the discussions of<br>free lists and better behavior in this regard in
2.5, but I don't<br>remember the details.</blockquote><div><br>Under Python 2.5, my original code posting no longer exhibits the bug - upon calling del(a), python's size shrinks back to ~4 MB, which is its starting size. I guess I'll see how painful it is to migrate a gentoo system to
2.5... Thanks for the hint :)<br><br></div></div>