Ivan Voras wrote: > Mathias Waack wrote: >> amounts of data. I figured out that a 32 bit application on HP-UX >> cannot address more than 1 GB of memory. In fact (I think due to >> the overhead of memory management done by python) a python >> application cannot use much more than 500 MB of "real" data. For >> this reason > > I don't thik this is likely. Don't know about HP-UX but on some > platforms, FreeBSD for example, there is a soft memory-cap for > applications. By default, a single application on FreeBSD cannot > use more than 512MB of memory, period. The limit can be modified by > root (probably involves rebooting).
As I stated I wrote a simple C-program before. The c-program was able to allocate a bit more than 900MB in 32 bit mode. My python script allocates a bunch of strings each of 1024 characters and writes it in a cStringIO. And it fails after writing 512K of strings. Don't know how python restricts the heap size - but I'm fairly sure its not a restriction of the OS. But thats not the point, I don't want to talk about one or two megabytes - I'm just missing some GB of heap;) Mathias -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
