Charles-François Natali <neolo...@free.fr> added the comment: > my computer has 122GB free RAM
122, or 1.22? > Well, replace cPickle by pickle and it works. cPickle makes some direct call to malloc()/realloc()/free(), contrarily to pickle which uses pymalloc. This could lead to heap fragmentation. What does the following return ? $ /usr/bin/time -v python test.py ---------- nosy: +neologix _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13555> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com