[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Feature Requests-540952 ] Memory Usage Reporting

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Feature Requests item #540952, was opened at 2002-04-08 08:01
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Category: Python Interpreter Core
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Allan Crooks (amc1)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Memory Usage Reporting

Initial Comment:
I would personally like a way in Python to report how 
many bytes of memory that the interpreter is using 
(perhaps through the sys module)?

If this sort of mechanism is added, then it may allow 
SoftReferences (a la Java) to be introduced, which 
would definitely be useful for memory sensitive 
caches...

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>Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2002-04-08 12:38

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Allan, this isn't easy, so the cost/benefit ratio is high.  
For the most part, Python gets memory from the system 
malloc, and doesn't even try to keep track of it now; nor 
has it any idea how much overhead (padding, control bytes) 
the system malloc adds; nor is there a portable interface 
to C's malloc for finding out such things.

Still, I agree it would be nice to have such things <wink>.

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