There is no thrashing of disk as I have > 2gb RAM and I'm not keeping the file contents in memory. One line is read at a time, some simple string processing and then writing out the modified line.
From: Kent Johnson Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 5:39 PM To: Dinesh B Vadhia Cc: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] endless processing through for loop On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Dinesh B Vadhia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's it. Very simple but after i reaches about 550,000 the program begins > to crawl. As an example, the loops to 550,000 takes about an hour. From > 550,000 to 580,000 takes an additional 4 hours. > > Any ideas about what could be going on? What happens to memory use? Does it start to thrash the disk? Are you somehow keeping the file contents in memory for all the files you read? Kent
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