[SciPy-user] How to free unused memory by Python

[william ratcliff]

I never used it, but have you tried using valgrind?


Cheers,
William

On 9/3/07, massimo sandal <massimo.sandal at unibo.it> wrote:
>
> Anne Archibald ha scritto:
> > If it is memory exhaustion, all this business about "not freeing
> > memory back to the OS" is a red herring. No matter how old your
> > version of python and how little memory it ever releases back to the
> > OS, new objects will be allocated from the memory the python process
> > already has. If your process keeps growing indefinitely, that's not
> > malloc, that's your code keeping references to more and more data so
> > that it cannot be free()d. Perhaps look into tools for debugging
> > memory leaks in python?
>
> I'd love to find one. I have memory leaks here and there in my code (no
> doubt due to dangling references) but it is often damn hard to debug
> them. I asked on comp.lang.python but I found no useful answers. If you
> know of a memory debugging tool for python, let us know!
>
> m.
>
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