Are there any decent python memory profilers available?

[Michael Hudson]

lthompson at ixiacom.com writes:

> I have a rather large python application (uses around 40MB of memory to
> start) that gradually chews up memory over many hours. I've done a
> little googling around, but it looks like I'm faced with prowling
> through the gc.get_objects() myself. I need a tool to identify where
> the memory is going. It might even be a leak in a DLL, so maybe a pure
> python profiler isn't the best, although it would certainly help
> localize the problem.

One is being written as part of Google's Summer Of Code program.

Cheers,
mwh

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