Is the whole program pure python? Sometimes a reference to undefined memory
or a lack of error checking elsewhere in a program, can cause innocuous code
to fail later: http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~dstromberg/checking-early.html
If the program uses ctypes, or an unusual Python/C API module, I'd
Hi,
I've a long running python process (running on freebsd). Sometimes when it
uses too much memory it core dumps. I would've expected it to raise
MemoryError. Normally, when would a python process raise MemoryError and
when would it fail with malloc error and cores? This is happening in pure
pyth
