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Check Resources Used by Processes Using Python

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Use the tracemalloc Library

https://docs.python.org/3/library/tracemalloc.html#module-tracemalloc

The tracemalloc module is a debug tool to trace memory blocks allocated by Python. It provides the following information:

  • Traceback where an object was allocated

  • Statistics on allocated memory blocks per filename and per line number: total size, number and average size of allocated memory blocks

  • Compute the differences between two snapshots to detect memory leaks