Tracking down memory leaks?

[Rene Pijlman]

malv:
>Is there any way for making Python return memory no longer needed to
>the OS? Cases may arise where you indeed need a big memory block
>temporarily without being able to split it up into smaller chunks.

That's not really necessary. On any decent OS it's just unused address
space, that doesn't consume any physical memory.

And when your process runs out of address space, you should program more
carefully :-)

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René Pijlman