David Shi wrote:
I have a Python script that automatically downloads zip files containing large datasets from another server and then unzips the files to further process the data.

This smells more like it belongs on comp.lang.python that wb-sig, but here goes...

The script works fine when two datasets each has several kilobytes size, but the script stops half way when datasets were about 11,000KBytes. I think that the execution time is too long and ArcGIS Server just simply killed the process.

How does ArcGIS execute this script?

What actions can I try to reduce the execution time?
ArcGIS Server only works on the basis of 32 bits and I was told that the maximum memory it can utilise is 4 MBytes.

For speed analysis, run the script through cProfile:

http://docs.python.org/library/profile.html

For analysis of how much memory your script is using, use heapy:

http://guppy-pe.sourceforge.net/heapy_tutorial.html

However, you mention downloading large files. Are you using httplib, urllib or urllib2 to do this? If so, you could be suffering from this bug:

http://bugs.python.org/issue6838

cheers,

Chris

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