measure_int_list.py

import os
import time
import math
import psutil


def convert_size(size_bytes):
    if size_bytes == 0:
        return "0B"
    size_name = ("B", "KB", "MB", "GB", "TB", "PB", "EB", "ZB", "YB")
    i = int(math.floor(math.log(size_bytes, 1024)))
    p = math.pow(1024, i)
    s = round(size_bytes / p, 2)
    return s, size_name[i]


# allocate a list with 10 million entries
big_number = 1000 * 1000 * 10
# big_list = list(range(big_number))
big_list = [10 for _ in range(big_number)]

print(len(big_list))
# time.sleep(100)

process = psutil.Process(os.getpid())
memory_in_bytes = process.memory_info().rss
print(convert_size(memory_in_bytes))