Memory usage, in droves

[Terry Reedy]

"Danyel Fisher" <danyelf at ics.uci.edu> wrote in message
news:9jr62c$16d$1 at news.service.uci.edu...
> I've been running a mail ... well, all sorts of stuff, including
digester,
> that sucks a lot of stuff into memory. As a test, it has been
digesting
> the python mailing list every 24 hours or so. Phew! That is a big
pile
> of data. It's multi-threaded, failry complex, and has a fair number
of
> little twiddly bits.
>
> I just went away for two weeks. I came back to note that it was
eating
> something like 79% of my linux box's memory--something over 100
> MB.

The volume of posts has been much larger (and hotter) than normal in
the
last two weeks.  Could that have accelerated your memory growth? ;-)

Terry J. Reedy