Memory pressure

When faced with the risk of running low on memory, you know that some of your programs’ variables are cache. They can be discarded, dropped on the floor, to be recomputed later.

Problem is, that they need a trigger to do it. Memory pressure management from Satella solves that problem.

install_force_gc_collect

If you want, you can install a GC handler that will force a complete GC collection upon entering given severity level.

Dumping memory information

Defining severity levels

Warning

Using following routines will spawn a daemon thread to monitor the memory usage in the background.

To define a severity level, use the following classes:

Here you can either provide a callable or override the can_fire method

You can combine them with following operators:

Then, you make a list out of them. This list, with indices counted from 1, signals what condition needs to be true for the program to enter given severity level.

Handlers

It is impossible to go from severity level 1 to say 3 without hitting 2. 2 will be hit by the way, the manager will call any handlers that are in the way. Note that severity levels are concurrent - for example, level 1 coexists with level 2, and if level 2 is in effect, that means that level 1 is still in effect. You can register your handlers here:

Note that you can also register objects to have their methods called on entering a memory severity level, if these objects have a way to to for example drop some data onto disk and decrease memory usage via cleanup_on_entered().