On 04/30/2015 02:48 PM, alister wrote:
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 20:23:31 +0200, Gisle Vanem wrote:
Cecil Westerhof wrote:
If I execute:
l = range(int(1E9)
The python process gobbles up all the memory and is killed. The problem
is that after this my swap is completely used, because other processes
have swapped to it. This make those programs more slowly. Is there a
way to circumvent Python claiming all the memory?
By the way: this is CPython 2.7.8.
On what OS? If I try something similar on Win-8.1 and CPython 2.7.5
(32-bit):
python -c "for i in range(int(1E9)): pass"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
MemoryError
--gv
also MemoryError on Fedora 21 32 bit
That's presumably because you end up running out of address space before
you run out of swap space. On a 64 bit system the reverse will be true,
unless you have a really *really* large swap file
ulimit is your friend if you've got a program that wants to gobble up
all of swap space.
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