[ZODB-Dev] Cache Query (why doesn't RAM usage ever drop?)

[Chris Withers]

Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> To complicate it more, Python never talks to "the OS", it talks to the
> platform libc malloc package.  Whether *that* returns memory to "the OS" is
> something Python has no say in at all.  Chris is most likely running on
> Windows, and all flavors of Windows differ (from Linux, and from each other)
> in the details too.

Actually, it's Linux in this case...

cheers,

Chris