Simon Willison’s Weblog

Using Graphics Card Memory as Swap (via) Interesting idea: “Graphic cards contain a lot of very fast RAM, typically between 64 and 512 MB. With Linux, it’s possible to use it as swap space, or even as RAM disk.” 3rd November 2009, 11:01 am

Finding and fixing memory leaks in Python. Using Dozer, a clever piece of WSGI middleware which displays sparklines of Python object counts and allows you to introspect them, using the gc module under the hood. 22nd April 2009, 12:16 pm

Heap Dump Analysis. Using jmap to dump the JVM’s memory to disk, then analysing it using the visualvm GUI tool. 2nd April 2009, 10:34 am

Troubleshooting Memory Usage. Useful for getting the most out of a VPS. 23rd January 2008, 6:52 pm