Force garbage collection in Python to free memory

Question

I have a Python2.7 App which used lots of dict objects which mostly contain strings for keys and values.

Sometimes those dicts and strings are not neede

Answer 1

That might be somewhat useful, using multiprocessing and a library called Ray which uses shared memory to perform multi-gb data sharing between processes. This way is easy to spawn a secondary process and still access the same objects quick and easy from the parent process.