[Gllug] mallinfo

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Fri Nov 2 13:57:01 UTC 2007


On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:44:40PM +0000, Kostas Georgiou wrote:
> Right, like python for example where the pymalloc memory allocator (only
> used for objects less than 256 bytes thankfully) never bothered to free
> any memory at all until recently (http://evanjones.ca/python-memory.html
> for the details).

This still doesn't explain why Python programs on my machine use such
huge amounts of heap ...

Rich.

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