How to get peak memory usage of python script?

Question

I'm doing some extensive scientific python calculations and whant to know execution time and memory footprint of python script.

So how to get peak memory usage of python script?

If it matters I'm on Windows and use python 2.7.

Answer 1

Sounds like you are looking for a memory profiler. Memory_profiler is one that you can dive into which line is giving you the problems and with some querying you can figure out which area is the biggest in memory consumption.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/memory_profiler and since you are using windows it will also need this https://pypi.python.org/pypi/psutil

Good Luck!