"High water" Memory fragmentation still a thing?

Antoine Pitrou antoine at python.org
Sat Oct 4 20:10:38 EDT 2014


Christian Heimes <christian <at> python.org> writes:
> 
> The article doesn't state if the writer is referring to virtual memory
> or resident set size.

Actually the article mentions the following recipe:

  resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss

which means the author is probably looking at resident set size.

Regards

Antoine.





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