*** malloc: vm_allocate(size=9252864) failed (error code=3) *** malloc[1522]: error: Can't allocate region
A thread on comp.lang.python shows that this bug has been encountered by others as well.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/ thread/cd5a8f28b021c269/cf7e574e3bc566df
I tested my program on my standard OS X 10.3 Python (2.3) as well as a build of 2.4 and found the same MemoryError. (btw: I had plenty of free RAM at the time. Over 1/4 of 1GB on a powerbook G4)
I tested the exact same program connecting to the exact same IMAP4 server (Exchange actually) on a Linux box and it worked fine (actually a Linux host running in VPC on the very same Mac).
The data that was causing the MemoryError was a 9 MB mail message on the IMAP server. After I deleted this message the program on the Mac ran fine. The other messages were max 1 MB in size and there were about 114 of them. (The program downloads every message from a user's IMAP account, amongst other things.)
Attached is a full Traceback of the MemoryError (as formatted by iPython).
Is this a known issue, or should I submit it somewhere?
Cheers, Chris
-- Chris Miles http://chrismiles.info/
*** malloc: vm_allocate(size=9244672) failed (error code=3) *** malloc[1436]: error: Can't allocate region --------------------------------------------------------------------------- exceptions.MemoryError Traceback (most recent call last)
/Users/chris/<console>
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/imaplib.py
in fetch(self, message_set, message_parts)
415 """
416 name = 'FETCH'
--> 417 typ, dat = self._simple_command(name, message_set,
message_parts)
418 return self._untagged_response(typ, dat, name)
419
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/imaplib.py
in _simple_command(self, name, *args)
998 def _simple_command(self, name, *args):
999
-> 1000 return self._command_complete(name, self._command(name, *args))
1001
1002
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/imaplib.py
in _command_complete(self, name, tag)
832 raise self.abort('command: %s => %s' % (name, val))
833 except self.error, val:
--> 834 raise self.error('command: %s => %s' % (name, val))
835 self._check_bye()
836 if typ == 'BAD':
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/imaplib.py
in _get_tagged_response(self, tag)
934 if self.debug >= 1:
935 self.print_log()
--> 936 raise
937
938
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/imaplib.py
in _get_response(self)
891 if self.debug >= 4:
892 self._mesg('read literal size %s' % size)
--> 893 data = self.read(size)
894
895 # Store response with literal as tuple
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/imaplib.py
in read(self, size) 229 def read(self, size):
230 """Read 'size' bytes from remote."""
--> 231 return self.file.read(size)
232
233
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/socket.py
in read(self, size)
299 left = size - buf_len
300 recv_size = max(self._rbufsize, left)
--> 301 data = self._sock.recv(recv_size)
302 if not data:
303 break
MemoryError:
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