memory consumption

[Inada Naoki]

> ********** Before first run:
> # arenas allocated total           =                  776
> # arenas reclaimed                 =                  542
> # arenas highwater mark            =                  234
> # arenas allocated current         =                  234
> 234 arenas * 262144 bytes/arena    =           61,341,696
> ********** After first run:
> # arenas allocated total           =               47,669
> # arenas reclaimed                 =               47,316
> # arenas highwater mark            =               10,114
> # arenas allocated current         =                  353
> 353 arenas * 262144 bytes/arena    =           92,536,832
>  ********** After second run:
> # arenas allocated total           =               63,635
> # arenas reclaimed                 =               63,238
> # arenas highwater mark            =               10,114
> # arenas allocated current         =                  397
> 397 arenas * 262144 bytes/arena    =          104,071,168


OK, memory allocated by obmalloc is 61MB -> 92MB -> 104MB.

Memory usage increasing, but it is much smaller than 1GB. 90% memory
is allocated by malloc().

You should try jemalloc. Trying jemalloc is not hard. You don't need
to rebuild Python.
Google "<your platform> jemalloc LD_PRELOAD".


-- 
Inada Naoki  <songofacandy at gmail.com>