How is memory managed in python?
Christian Heimes
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Tue Jul 20 08:31:38 EDT 2010
> In my web application (Django) I call a function for some request which
> loads like 500 MB data from the database uses it to do some calculation and
> stores the output in disk. I just wonder even after this request is served
> the apache / python process is still shows using that 500 MB, why is it so?
> Can't I release that memory?
Are you talking about resident or virtual memory here?
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