Prior to PR 10419, sock_sendall does not make a copy of the data. PR 10419 introduced an extra copy, which may cause problem for code that send a huge chunk of data simultaneously to many peers. Relevant change is:

https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/10419/files#diff-2d64b02252335b37396e00e56fa66984R443

Bellow is a test that show the regression between 3.7.1 and 3.8-dev

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import asyncio
import socket
import os
from subprocess import check_output

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()

def mem_usage():
    pid = str(os.getpid())
    print(check_output(['ps', '-o', 'rss,comm'], text=True))

async def main():
    data = bytearray(10*10**6)
    data = memoryview(data)
    tasks = []
    for i in range(100):
        s1, s2 = socket.socketpair()
        s1.setblocking(False)
        s2.setblocking(False)
        tasks.append(loop.create_task(loop.sock_sendall(s1, data)))
        tasks.append(loop.create_task(loop.sock_recv(s2, 1)))
    await asyncio.sleep(0.1)
    mem_usage()
    for t in tasks:
        t.cancel()
    await asyncio.wait(tasks)

loop.run_until_complete(main())

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result

3.7.1: 24724
3.8-dev: 979184

Thanks for the report!

New changeset 6e7890028213b30939327e7cf885bf097fc14472 by Miss Islington (bot) (Andrew Svetlov) in branch 'master':
bpo-35589: Prevent buffer copy in sock_sendall() (GH-11418)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6e7890028213b30939327e7cf885bf097fc14472