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Re: What is heating the memory here? hashlib?

From Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns@netcabo.pt>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: What is heating the memory here? hashlib?
Date 2016-02-15 17:29 +0000
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Às 08:12 de 15-02-2016, Johannes Bauer escreveu:
> On 15.02.2016 03:21, Paulo da Silva wrote:
> 
>> So far I tried the program twice and it ran perfectly.
> 
> I think you measured your RAM consumption wrong.
> 
> Linux uses all free RAM as HDD cache. That's what is used in "buffers".
> That is, it's not "free", but it would be free if any process would
> sbrk(). My guess is that you only looked at the "free" number going down
> and concluded your program is eating your RAM. Which it wasn't.
> 
No, for sure.
I monitored (using atop) free, cache and swap. In general, because I
only have 2GB, freemem is almost always a few tens of MB. Remaining
"free" memory is in Cache. When Cache goes low it begins to swap out.

Paulo

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What is heating the memory here? hashlib? Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns@netcabo.pt> - 2016-02-13 19:29 +0000
  Re: What is heating the memory here? hashlib? Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns@netcabo.pt> - 2016-02-13 22:26 +0000
    Re: What is heating the memory here? hashlib? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 09:45 +1100
      Re: What is heating the memory here? hashlib? Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns@netcabo.pt> - 2016-02-14 01:44 +0000
        Re: What is heating the memory here? hashlib? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 13:01 +1100
  Re: What is heating the memory here? hashlib? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-02-14 13:21 +1100
    Re: What is heating the memory here? hashlib? Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns@netcabo.pt> - 2016-02-15 08:05 +0000
  Re: What is heating the memory here? hashlib? Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns@netcabo.pt> - 2016-02-14 07:04 +0000
    Re: What is heating the memory here? hashlib? INADA Naoki <songofacandy@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 18:49 +0900
      Re: What is heating the memory here? hashlib? Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns@netcabo.pt> - 2016-02-15 07:38 +0000
    Re: What is heating the memory here? hashlib? Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns@netcabo.pt> - 2016-02-15 02:21 +0000
      Re: What is heating the memory here? hashlib? Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2016-02-15 09:12 +0100
        Re: What is heating the memory here? hashlib? Paulo da Silva <p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns@netcabo.pt> - 2016-02-15 17:29 +0000

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