Hi Christian, I am not sure which one is used in this case, I use htop to see the memory used by apache / python. Thanks Vishal Rana On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote: > > In my web application (Django) I call a function for some request which > > loads like 500 MB data from the database uses it to do some calculation > and > > stores the output in disk. I just wonder even after this request is > served > > the apache / python process is still shows using that 500 MB, why is it > so? > > Can't I release that memory? >> Are you talking about resident or virtual memory here? >> -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20100720/2a97d583/attachment-0001.html>