On 8/31/2011 5:40 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
On 31/08/2011 13:33, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I am using Linux desktops; both incidents were with Python 2.5. Do newer
versions of Python respond to this sort of situation more gracefully?
Ironically, Windows does better here and dumps you out with a
Me
On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 5:49:24 AM UTC-7, Benjamin Kaplan wrote:
> 32-bit or 64-bit Python? A 32-bit program will crash once memory hits
> 2GB. A 64-bit program will just keep consuming RAM until your computer
> starts thrashing. The problem isn't your program using more RAM than
> you have,
On 9/12/2011 7:40 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
In article<4e6dc66e$0$29986$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
mylist = [0]*12345678901234
[...]
Apart from "Then don't do that!", is there anything I can do to prevent
this sort of thing in the future? Like instruct Python no
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:47:59 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Linux seems to fair badly when programs use more memory than physically
>> available. Perhaps there's some per-process thing that can be used to
>> limit things on Linux?
>
> As far as I know, ulimit ("user limit") won't help. It can l
In article <4e6dc66e$0$29986$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > mylist = [0]*12345678901234
> [...]
> > Apart from "Then don't do that!", is there anything I can do to prevent
> > this sort of thing in the future? Like instruct Python not to request more
> > memory t
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:33 pm Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Twice in a couple of weeks, I have locked up my PC by running a Python 2.5
> script that tries to create a list that is insanely too big.
>
> In the first case, I (stupidly) did something like:
>
> mylist = [0]*12345678901234
[...]
> Apart fr
On 08/31/11 18:31, Gregory Ewing wrote:
The Python process should also be able to set its own
limits using resource.setrlimit().
A new corner of stdlib that I've never poked at. Thanks for the
suggestion. Disappointed though that it doesn't seem to have
docstrings on the functions, so I had
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
As far as I know, ulimit ("user limit") won't help. It can limit the amount
of RAM available to a process, but that just makes the process start using
virtual memory more quickly.
ulimit -v is supposed to set the maximum amount of virtual
memory the process can use.
It
$ man limits.conf
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On Aug 31, 2011, at 8:33 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> Twice in a couple of weeks, I have locked up my PC by running a Python 2.5
> script that tries to create a list that is insanely too big.
>
> In the first case, I (stupidly) did something like:
>
> m
On 08/31/2011 02:40 PM, Chris Withers wrote:
On 31/08/2011 13:33, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I am using Linux desktops; both incidents were with Python 2.5. Do newer
versions of Python respond to this sort of situation more gracefully?
Ironically, Windows does better here and dumps you out with a
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Twice in a couple of weeks, I have locked up my PC by running a Python 2.5
> script that tries to create a list that is insanely too big.
>
> In the first case, I (stupidly) did something like:
>
> mylist = [0]*12345678901234
>
> After leaving the machine for THREE DAYS
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
>
> On 31/08/2011 13:33, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>> I am using Linux desktops; both incidents were with Python 2.5. Do newer
>> versions of Python respond to this sort of situation more gracefully?
>
> Ironically, Windows does better here and
Chris Withers wrote:
> On 31/08/2011 13:33, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> I am using Linux desktops; both incidents were with Python 2.5. Do newer
>> versions of Python respond to this sort of situation more gracefully?
>
> Ironically, Windows does better here and dumps you out with a
> MemoryError b
On 31/08/2011 13:33, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I am using Linux desktops; both incidents were with Python 2.5. Do newer
versions of Python respond to this sort of situation more gracefully?
Ironically, Windows does better here and dumps you out with a
MemoryError before slowly recovering.
Linux
Twice in a couple of weeks, I have locked up my PC by running a Python 2.5
script that tries to create a list that is insanely too big.
In the first case, I (stupidly) did something like:
mylist = [0]*12345678901234
After leaving the machine for THREE DAYS (!!!) I eventually was able to get
to a
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