Thanks - this is all very interesting... > Ah, but is that physical memory consumed, or virtual memory MAPPED > to the processes. and > for python, the "private" memory use is usually ~1.5 megabytes for a "empty" 2.4 > process, and some of that will only occupy space in the paging file... for firefox with > a simple page loaded into a single tab, the private space is ~10 megabytes) and most useful: > http://www.itwriting.com/dotnetmem.php I had no idea that the memory usage reported by Windows Task Manager (WTM) was so different than what I expected it would be. It doesn't seem terribly useful to me right now. After looking into that link (and discovering the perfmon app... can't believe I never knew about such an amazingly useful tool!) below are the results of some memory reporting checks that I ran on the simple one-liner app (x = raw_input()). The "On Launch" is what was reported immediately after launching the app, and the "Window Min'd" is following a simple minimization for the window. Memory report: On Launch Window Min'd -------------- --------- ------------ WTM Mem Usage: 2,756K 88K PerfMon Private bytes: 1,540,096 1,540,096 PerfMon Working set: 2,822,144 90,112 ** Basically it looks like the privately allocated memory for a 2.3 app that cannot be shared by other processes (close to what I want, neglecting paging possibilities) is the 1.5 MB that Fredrik reported. Presumably using perfmon as well? Maybe I'm a stickler, but this still seems pretty high for each and every application to need to privately hold. Am I still misreading this somehow? If not, I'd still love for this to be smaller... is there any way to reduce this further? Russ ** There was an interesting transient in the Working set during minimization all the way up to 9 MB... presumably this is because during minimization the "set of memory pages touched recently" jumps up because of the transactions needed for the minimization.
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