Steven D'Aprano wrote: > (2) More memory will help avoid paging. If you can't get more memory, try > more virtual memory. It will still be slow, but at least the operating > system doesn't have to try moving blocks around as much. >
Based on his previous post, it would seem he has 7GB of RAM (with about 5GB free) and 2GB of swap. I don't think RAM is the issue. Maybe there's something wrong with his specific Python installation. What version is it and was it compiled by him? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list