memory-usage

Where did all the memory go?

We've built a windows service which uses some COM+ components (developed by us). It runs on a Windows server (virtual through vmware) and something is eating memory. Memory check I did a small application which runs through all Process.GetProcesses and return their total memory usage: First run: C:\Temp>ProcessExplorer.exe Virtual: 1...

How well does Clojure perform when it comes to memory footprint?

As for the background, I am writing a web service in Clojure (using Compojure i this case). I am not worried about performance, that seems to be good enough and I can always fire upp more server instances. Even if a Clojure implementation would be 2-10 times slower than the corresponding Java implementation, I would always prefer a clea...

Python statement uses excessive amounts of RAM

This simple statement: zip(xrange(0, 11614321), xrange(0, 11627964)) ...is eating most of my RAM. (>150 MiB!) Why? Edit: Ah, re-reading the docs, I see zip returns a list, not an iterable. Anything like zip that returns an iterable? The larger picture: I'm iterating over two large arrays of file data, and I'm doing things like ite...