[Baypiggies] json using huge memory footprint and not releasing

[David Lawrence]

This will probably be the course we have to take.



On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012, David Lawrence wrote:
> >
> > When I load the file into json, pythons memory usage spike to about 1.8GB
> > and I can't seem to get that memory to be released.  I put together a
> test
> > case that's very simple:
> >
> > with open("test_file.json", 'r') as f:
> >     j = json.load(f)
>
> If you really need the memory released, do it in a subprocess.
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