Monitoring Memory Usage of a Running Python Program

This article explains how to monitor memory consumption of Python data‑processing scripts using operating‑system tools, the built‑in tracemalloc module, the resource module for sampling, and a threaded MemoryMonitor class to continuously track peak usage with minimal intrusion.

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Monitoring Memory Usage of a Running Python Program

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Dec 18, 2017 · Backend Development

How I Traced and Fixed a Python DICOM Server Memory Leak

After deploying a Python server for receiving DICOM medical images, the author encountered severe memory consumption, investigated the leak using tools like gc, objgraph, tracemalloc, and pyrasite, identified a self‑referencing DicomFileLike object with a __del__ method, and resolved the issue by patching the code.

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How I Traced and Fixed a Python DICOM Server Memory Leak