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Re: Measure the amount of memory used?

From John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Measure the amount of memory used?
Date 2011-08-18 15:39 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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References <mailman.166.1313680196.27778.python-list@python.org>

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In <mailman.166.1313680196.27778.python-list@python.org> Jack Bates <ms419@freezone.co.uk> writes:

>  1) How does the amount of memory used change as it runs?

I've observed that the amount of memory consumed by a program will
stay constant or increase; it never decreases.

Or were you wanting to measure the rate of increase over time?

> Has anyone else measured the memory used by a Python program? How did
> you do it?

I generally use 'top' to do this for any program.

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Measure the amount of memory used? Jack Bates <ms419@freezone.co.uk> - 2011-08-18 08:08 -0700
  Re: Measure the amount of memory used? John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-08-18 15:39 +0000
  Re: Measure the amount of memory used? MrJean1 <mrjean1@gmail.com> - 2011-08-18 19:07 -0700

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