memory leak troubleshooting techniques

[Adam Deutsch]

I would like to ask some advice about tracking down memory leaks in Python
code.

We have a python application running on Python 2.0.1 in an embedded Linux
environment (kernel version 2.4.7).  We have recently detected a memory leak
that we can see from "ps aux" is attributable to the Python processes.
Running Sam Rushing's (http://www.nightmare.com/medusa/memory-leaks.html)
get_refcounts() function does not yield any smoking guns:  the reference
counts for all classes remain stable even as memory use climbs.

Is there any systematic method of determining how Python is using its
allocated memory?

Thanks.