[Python-Dev] The untuned tunable parameter ARENA_SIZE
Larry Hastings
larry at hastings.org
Mon Jun 5 18:55:40 EDT 2017
On 06/04/2017 01:18 PM, Tim Peters wrote:
> [Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org>]
>> ...
>> Yet CPython's memory consumption continues to grow. By the time a current
>> "trunk" build of CPython reaches the REPL prompt it's already allocated 16
>> arenas.
> I'd be surprised if that's true ;-) The first time `new_arena()` is
> called, it allocates space for a vector of 16 (INITIAL_ARENA_OBJECTS)
> `arena_object` structs. Those are tiny, and hold bookkeeping info for
> the actual arenas, none of which are allocated at first.
Oh! I thought it also allocated the arenas themselves, in a loop. I
thought I saw that somewhere. Happy to be proved wrong...
> So at most 9 arenas ("highwater mark") were ever simultaneously allocated..
... though not completely off-base.
On 06/04/2017 11:50 AM, Tim Peters wrote:
> I was hoping to spur a discussion of much higher level issues. I bet
> Larry was too ;-)
Actually I was hoping everyone would just tell me how right I was and
thank me for my profound insights.
//arry/
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