getting memory usage of varaibles

[Larry Martell]

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a script that consumes more and more memory as it runs. It has
>> no globals and the large data structures go out of scope often so
>> should be garbage collected. I've looked at the most likely suspects
>> with sys.getsizeof and they are not growing in size. I did this:
>>
>> sum([sys.getsizeof(o) for o in gc.get_objects()])
>>
>> And I can see it getting larger and larger. But I want to see what it
>> is that is causing this. My thought was to put all the objects in a
>> dict with their sizes and compare them as the program runs and report
>> on the one that are growing. But I can't get the name of the object
>> from gc.get_objects only the id.
>>
>> Anyone have any thoughts on how I can monitor the variables' memory
>> usage as the script runs?
>
> This is application-specific, but sometimes it helps to look at the
> objects' types, or even their values.

The types are dict and list, so they are not very useful, nor were the values.