[melbourne-pug] Python 2.7 memory profiler

[Ed Schofield]

Hi David,

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:49 AM, David Crisp <david.crisp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Im trying to find a Python 2.7 memory profiler (for windows +64bit
> python) all I can find are the 2.6 versions.
>
> How do I find out how much physical memory an array is using in memory
> other than doing the calculation of "well this is two bytes and I have
> 1000 of them that means 2000 bytes" ......
>

I don't know the answer to your first question, but if, by "array", you mean
a NumPy array, you can use the nbytes property:

>>> a = numpy.arange(10**6).reshape(10**4, 10**2)
>>> a.nbytes
4000000

The answer is as you said (a.itemsize * a.size). The actual number of bytes
will be a small fixed number of bytes more than the contents (because of the
overhead of the ndarray pointers to dtype etc.), but this is usually
negligible.

Cheers,


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Dr. Edward Schofield
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