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Author flox
Recipients flox, hynek, ned.deily, pitrou, r.david.murray, ronaldoussoren
Date 2012-08-13.16:10:52
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> All of this clearly points towards malloc not releasing allocated memory to the system.
> This is perfectly fine and not a bug in either Python or the system.

So it means there's no reliable way to measure the memory consumption of the program.
Sorry for the wrong report, if this is confirmed.
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2012-08-13 16:10:53floxsetrecipients: + flox, ronaldoussoren, pitrou, ned.deily, r.david.murray, hynek
2012-08-13 16:10:53floxsetmessageid: <1344874253.04.0.318855235524.issue15635@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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