Technical Notes

• Technical Note on the cPyMemTrace Design
  • Stacking Context Managers
  • Stacking Decorators
  • Counting Allocations by Type
• Technical Note on cPyMemTrace Performance
  • Test Program and Data
  • Profiling
  • Tracing
  • Reference Tracing
• Technical Note on cPyMemTrace Reference Tracing
  • How Reference Tracing Works
  • A Simple Reference Tracer
  • A More Useful Reference Tracer
  • Guarding Against a Stack Overflow
  • Issues with pytest
• Using Reference Tracing to Detect Memory Leaks
  • Creating a Memory Leak
  • Using Reference Tracing
• cPyMemTrace Log File Format
  • Log File Name
  • Profile and Trace Log File Format
  • Reference Tracing Log File Format
• Technical Note on DTrace
  • Python Builds
  • Baseline: Python 3.9
  • Python 3.9 Release with DTrace support, no Tracing
  • Python 3.9 Release with DTrace support, DTrace Tracing
  • Python 3.9 Debug with DTrace support, no Tracing
  • Python 3.9 Debug with DTrace support, DTrace Tracing
  • Summary
• Cost of Calculating RSS
  • Using psutil
  • Using cPyMemTrace