[Numpy-discussion] Python memory management issues using Linux. Maybe Numpy related.

[Ralf Gommers]

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Jeffrey Spencer <jeffspencerd at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have had issues with Linux (Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64) not releasing memory
> back to the OS. I have code here the exhibits the issue:
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5975255/memory-allocated-to-python-in-the-os-is-never-released-back-in-linux-even-after-g
>
> Can you post an actual example that shows your issue? That code doesn't do
anything - it only imports some libraries and defines a class which is not
even instantiated.


> Then I read at http://pushingtheweb.com/2010/06/python-and-tcmalloc/
> that this was a problem fixed by compiling your own version of Python
> using the TCMalloc library which I have now done.


Funny how such a thing never comes up, and then twice in three days:)
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/43965

Ralf


> The issue is still
> exhibited so I was keen to know if possibly it was because numpy is
> compiled and linked to the default memory management library (not sure
> if this is true or how this works but would I also need to compile numpy
> linked to the TCMalloc library). Let me know if anyone has any insight
> on this issue. Or if it isn't related to numpy at all.
>
>
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