Set x to to None and del x doesn't release memory in python 2.7.1 (HPUX 11.23, ia64)

[Wong Wah Meng-R32813]

The problem is my server hits memory usage threshold, and starts giving me errors like Oracle unable to spawn off new session stating Out of Memory error and what not. I won't be bothered much if I have the luxury of available memory for other processes to use. If only if the UNIX understand my concerns and release the allocation when I issue gc.collect() or the gc.collect() takes place. :)



 


On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Wong Wah Meng-R32813 <r32813 at freescale.com> wrote:
> [] The example is written for illustration purpose. Thanks for 
> pointing out a better way of achieving the same result. Yes it seems 
> so that the OS thinks the piece allocated to Python should not be 
> taken back unless the process dies. :(

Don't be too bothered by that. That memory will be reused by Python for subsequent allocations.