On Jan 25, 2:42 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de...@nospam.web.de> wrote: > Am 25.01.10 21:15, schrieb AlexM: > > > > > On Jan 25, 2:03 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch"<de...@nospam.web.de> wrote: > >> Am 25.01.10 20:39, schrieb AlexM: > > >>> On Jan 25, 1:23 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch"<de...@nospam.web.de> wrote: > >>>> Am 25.01.10 20:05, schrieb Alexander Moibenko: > > >>>>> I have a simple question to which I could not find an answer. > >>>>> What is the total maximal size of list including size of its elements? > >>>>> I do not like to look into python source. > > >>>> But it would answer that question pretty fast. Because then you'd see > >>>> that all list-object-methods are defined in terms of Py_ssize_t, which > >>>> is an alias for ssize_t of your platform. 64bit that should be a 64bit > >>>> long. > > >>>> Diez > > >>> Then how do explain the program output? > > >> What exactly? That after 3GB it ran out of memory? Because you don't > >> have 4GB memory available for processes. > > >> Diez > > > Did you see my posting? > > .... > > Here is what I get on 32-bit architecture: > > cat /proc/meminfo > > MemTotal: 8309860 kB > > MemFree: 5964888 kB > > Buffers: 84396 kB > > Cached: 865644 kB > > SwapCached: 0 kB > > ..... > > > I have more than 5G in memory not speaking of swap space. > > Yes, I saw your posting. 32Bit is 32Bit. Do you know about PAE? > > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension > > Just because the system can deal with more overall memory - one process > can't get more than 4 GB (or even less, through re-mapped memory). > Except it uses specific APIs like the old hi-mem-stuff under DOS. > > Diez
Yes, I do. Good catch! I have PAE enabled, but I guess I have compiled python without extended memory. So I was looking in the wrong place. Thanks! AlexM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
