Private Byte and Handle Count leak?

[bobbay]

If I run this very simple code (taken from readthedocs) and use perfmon to monitor private bytes and handle count, you will see that private bytes and handle count ramp up at a very steep slope. Am I doing something wrong?

dev setup:
[C++:General:Additional Include Directories:C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\include]
[Linker:Input:Additional Dependencies: python39.lib]

#include "Pybind11/pybind11.h"
#include "Pybind11/embed.h"
namespace py = pybind11;

#include <Windows.h> // for Sleep

int main()
{
for (;;)
{
py::scoped_interpreter guard{}; // start the interpreter and keep it alive
//py::print("Hello, World!"); // use the Python API
Sleep(1000);
}
}