Memory Usage
Stuart McGarrity
stuartm at mathworks.com
Mon Jan 24 10:57:47 EST 2005
Do you have a page file?
The Mem column should be RAM usage and not total working set. Some of it
could be swapped to the page file. A free tool like process explorer can
give you better informaton than the task manager.
"rbt" <rbt at athop1.ath.vt.edu> wrote in message
news:ct2v9f$k3t$1 at solaris.cc.vt.edu...
> Would a Python process consume more memory on a PC with lots of memory?
>
> For example, say I have the same Python script running on two WinXP
> computers that both have Python 2.4.0. One computer has 256 MB of Ram
> while the other has 2 GB of Ram. On the machine with less Ram, the process
> takes about 1 MB of Ram. On the machine with more Ram, it uses 9 MB of
> Ram.
>
> Is this normal and expected behavior?
>
> Thanks,
>
> rbt
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