> Have you considered that the operating system imposes per-process limits > on memory usage? You say that your server has 128 GB of memory, but that > doesn't mean the OS will make anything like that available.
According to our system administrator, I can use all of the 128G. > > I thought it would be practical not to create the > > dictionary from a text file each time I needed it. I.e. I thought > > loading the .pyc-file should be faster. Yet, Python failed to create a > > .pyc-file > > Probably a good example of premature optimization. Well, as I was using Python, I did not expect to have to care about the language's internal affairs that much. I thought I could simply do always the same no matter how large my files get. In other words, I thought Python was really scalable. > Out of curiosity, how > long does it take to create it from a text file? I do not remember this exactly. But I think it was not much more than an hour. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list