[Baypiggies] Watching how much memory my Python program is taking up

[Luke Gotszling]

Hi Paul,

You can try one of these methods:
http://fa.bianp.net/blog/2013/different-ways-to-get-memory-consumption-or-lessons-learned-from-memory_profiler/

Also look at the resource module:
https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/resource.html

Best, Luke

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Greetings. I have a Python 3.4 program that will keep eating up memory
> until I tell it to stop; in short, it uses asyncio to launch as many
> coroutines as the machine can handle. I want to determine approximately how
> much memory I am using at this moment so I know when to stop consuming more
> and having the box run out of memory (I already have swapping turned off).
>
> Are there well-known patterns for this? I looked in a bunch of places and
> found nothing, which kinda surprised me. I recognize that it is unlikely
> that there is a cross-OS method for this, but I would be happy with just
> something that says "I'm now taking up a total of 3.7 gig" and I can do the
> "how much is too much" calculation by hand.
>
> Pointers are appreciated.
>
> --Paul Hoffman
>
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