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Jascha
Asked: 2014-10-13 11:02:26 +0800 CST

Azure Memory Allocation (Windows VM) for Python?

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I'm running a pretty intensive python script on a large Azure Windows VM. I'm using Enthought Canopy for my python environment. The VM has 56gb of ram available... however in the task manager python only appears to be using 240mb of ram. Is this a result of the process itself or memory allocation for python? And if it is memory allocation, how can I allocate more memory?enter image description here

Thank you for your time.

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  1. Windows will only give memory to a process if and when the process asks for it. Windows won't give away memory to processes that don't ask for it, even if it has plenty of free memory. Looks to me like Python isn't asking for any more than 243MB of memory. Why do you feel like this Python script should be requesting more memory from the operating system? Memory management is not usually an issue in Python, so I'm hesitant to go into things like void* PyMem_Malloc(size_t n) or whatever, because then this turns into a Stackoverflow discussion.

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