Memory profiling

[Michael Hudson]

Rune Froysa <rune.froysa at usit.uio.no> writes:

> Does Python provide any tools that can help in determining where the
> memory is used?

*Memory*, no.  Especially in a debug build, there are tools for
finding out where the objects are, though.

> Ideally, I would like to see a tool that can list all objects by
> memory-usage, but any tool that can return the number of bytes used
> by an arbitrary object would be of great help.  Even something that
> could find all allocated dicts&lists and return their size+name
> would help.

In a debug build, look at sys.getobjects.  In a recent release build,
look at gc.get_objects.

Cheers,
mwh

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