[Baypiggies] json using huge memory footprint and not releasing

[Aahz]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012, David Lawrence wrote:
>
> When I load the file into json, pythons memory usage spike to about 1.8GB
> and I can't seem to get that memory to be released.  I put together a test
> case that's very simple:
> 
> with open("test_file.json", 'r') as f:
>     j = json.load(f)

If you really need the memory released, do it in a subprocess.
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