On Wednesday 22 November 2006 4:32 pm, Nick Nugent wrote: > case, however, in contrast to the first, inspecting the size of the > interpreter's process in the host operating system shows that very > little of the total memory allocated by this script is ever freed. in Linux (like any Unix, AFAIK), it's very rare for a process to return memory to the OS; any free()'d memory is returned to an in-process free list. the process size (as reported by /proc, ps, top, and friends) is roughly the max size it has reached. -- Javier
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