What is heating the memory here? hashlib?

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Paulo da Silva
<p_s_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns at netcabo.pt> wrote:
> I meant eating! :-)

Heh, "heating" works too - the more you use memory, the more it heats up :)

I'm assuming this is inside "class File:" and you have class members
for your constants like header size? There's no context for the name
"File" otherwise.

What happens if, after hashing each file (and returning from this
function), you call gc.collect()? If that reduces your RAM usage, you
have reference cycles somewhere.

ChrisA