Overhead of individual python apps

[Larry Bates]

Several apps using 4Mb each shouldn't be very much
memory (maybe 20Mb at most).  You didn't say how
much memory was in your machine, but 256Mb of memory
will cost you no more than $50.  Not really worth a
lot of effort.

-Larry

Qopit wrote:
> I'm setting up a system that consists of several small python
> applications that all communicate amongst each other on the same pc.
> 
> When running in Windows, launching each application generates a
> process, and each of those processes ends up taking up > 4MB of system
> memory.  This memory usage is as reported by the Windows Task manager
> for the python.exe image name.
> 
> My Question: Is there any way to reduce this per-process overhead?  eg:
> can you set it somehow so that one python.exe instance handles multiple
> processes?
> 
> One possibility considered is to run them as threads of a single
> process rather than multiple processes, but this has other drawbacks
> for my application and I'd rather not,
> 
> Another possibility I considered is to strip out all but the most
> essential imports in each app, but I tested this out and it has
> marginal benefits.  I demonstrated to myself that a simple one liner
> app consisting of 'x = raw_input()' still eats up > 2.7MB .
> 
> I also tried -O but it, not surprisingly, did nothing for the
> one-liner.
> 
> I'm simply running the .py files and I am still on v2.3
> 
> All help appreciated!
> 
> Thanks,
> Russ
>