import psycopg2 import threading, os, time, gc for i in range(20000): conn = psycopg2.connect('dbname=test') del conn if i%200 == 0: datafile = os.popen('ps -p %s -o rss' % os.getpid()) line = datafile.readlines(2)[1].strip() datafile.close() print str(i) + '\t' + line