I'm thinking you either have a problem with a memory leak (my memory isn't
changing, just at 100% CPU), or your CPU overheated from poor cooling since
it is at 100% utilization.
On 11/17/06, Chris Hengge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, I dont get the point.. its not locking up my system or anything..
its just crunching away... even while I type this...
I guess your point is that it should stop since a 32 bit O/S can only
count to:
4,294,967,296
On 11/17/06, Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Earlier today I typed the following into my pythonwin interactive
> interpreter in windows xp:
>
> >>> int('7' * 10 ** 6)
>
> I expected either an error message or it to get stuck and require me to
> stop the process manually.
>
> I read that unlike long integers in C, longs in python are only limited
> by the amount of memory (and virtual memory) your system has.
>
> Can you guess what it did?
>
> I'm temped to end the post here, but I'm new to this list and its
> possible that people might be annoyed by me not getting to the point within
> my initial post, so here's what it did:
>
> It thought about it for about 2 seconds then restarted my pc!
> explanations welcome.
>
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