Investigating memory using of python Queues

queue-testing.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import Queue
import json
import random
import time
import psutil

def random_message():
	"""create a dict of junk data, return as json"""

	msg = {}

	for i in range(9):
		msg[random.random()] = random.random()

	return json.dumps(msg)


q = Queue.LifoQueue()

counter = 0

while True:
	counter += 1
	q.put(random_message())
	time.sleep(0.01)

	if counter % 1000 == 0:
		print 'queue size', q.qsize()
		print psutil.phymem_usage()
		print '\n'