Python threads and memory usage

[Mike]

On May 30, 9:42 am, Mike <mszpad... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 30, 9:16 am, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr... at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> > On Thu, 29 May 2008 12:01:30 -0700 (PDT), Mike <mszpad... at gmail.com>
> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
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> > > I observed, that every thread reserved some memory, and after exit
> > > thread doesn't freed it. When i leaved my server working for 3 days,
> > > then it takes 15% of 512MB memory (during that time about 15000
> > > threads were created and stopped). When server starts it only takes
> > > about 1% of memory.
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> >         Do you have any outstanding references to the threads? If so, have
> > you performed a .join() with the thread? Until you join it, the thread
> > state (thread local objects/"variables") are probably being held for
> > access from outside the thread.
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> I'm joining threads only during my program exit. I'll try to do what
> You suggest.
>
> THX

It helped. Now all threads are added to thread list and every some
period of time I'm checking which threads are alive (enumerate), and
joining all which aren't. Now [memory usage is still on 1% :D:D:D

Thanks