[Tutor] memory management

[Christian Tismer]

Arne Mueller wrote:
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> I've monitore memory usage on my computer and after executing the three
> above loops the memory usage should go down - but it doesn't! Whats' up?
> Is the memory collected for internal usage by python, would it be reused
> when creating new objects, or is the above way to free lists and
> dictionaries of objects wrong?

No, AFAIK Python does never free memory which it had
acquired before, but it will reuse it.
It is better to avoid such tremendous memory usage,
maybe you should write your results out to a marshal
file and spawn a new process, or try to change your
algorithm to be less greedy :-)

ciao - chris

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