How is memory managed in python?

[Christian Heimes]

Am 20.07.2010 17:50, schrieb Vishal Rana:
> Hi Christian,
> 
> I am not sure which one is used in this case, I use htop to see the memory
> used by apache / python.

In its default configuration htop reports three different types of
memory usage: virt, res and shr (virtual, resident and shared memory).
Which of them stays at 500 MB?

Christian