How do I find the memory used by a python process

[Scott David Daniels]

Ben Finney wrote:
> Salim Fadhley <salimfadhley at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> The unit-test needs to check that after the functions have been run
>> a few thousand times all of the memory used by those functions has
>> been un-allocated, i.e. that there are no memory leaks.
> 
> This is a great test case, .... However, I wonder why you specify
> the need to run the function *thousands* of times to test whether
> it releases memory. Surely your code unit is deterministic and will
> release memory (or not) the same way with the same inputs each time?
> 
Because simply using small integers will cause them to exist and live
on in a cache.  For this (and similar caching reasons), what you want
to see is that memory doesn't grow in an unbounded way.


--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org