If the memory usage is continually growing, you have something else
that is a problem -- something is holding onto objects. Even if Python is not
returning memory to the OS, it should be reusing the memory it has if objects
are being freed.
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[] Yes I have verified my python application is reusing the memory (just that
it doesn't reduce once it has grown) and my python process doesn't have any
issue to run even though it is seen taking up more than 2G in footprint. My
problem is capacity planning on the server whereby since my python process
doesn't release memory back to the OS, the OS wasn't able to allocate memory
when a new process is spawn off.
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