I’ve dealt with Java services at Amazon too long when I can spot one by the CPU/memory signature.

This is pretty typical of a long-running service garbage collecting with old generation objects. Note the CPU utilization as the VM removes old generation objects and subsequent drop in memory utilization.

I’ve been snatching 30 and 60 minute blocks of time in the evenings and on the weekends to get back to work on my Radar test in Python with PyGame from nearly four years ago. PyGame 1.9.1 installed easily on my Windows box and OS X laptop and integrated well with Python 3.1 (on Windows) and Stackless Python 2.6 (on OS X). The only significant changes to be made in the code between Python 2 and Python 3 had to do with exception handling.
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