[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So I read quite a few things about this phenomenon in Python 2.4.x but > I can hardly believe that there is really no solution to my problem. > > We use a commercial tool that has a macro functionality. These macros > are written in python. So far nothing extraordinary. > > Our (python-)macro uses massively nested loops which are unfortunately > necessary. These loops perform complex calculations in this commercial > tool. To give you a quick overview how long this macros runs: > > The outer loop takes 5-7 hours for one cycle. Each cycle creates one > outputfile. So we would like to perform 3-5 outer cycles en bloc. > Unfortunately one of our computers (768MB RAM) crashes after just ~10% > of the first cycle with the following error message: > > http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/7157b1dd7e.jpg > > while another computer (1GB RAM) crashes after ~10% of the fourth > loop. While the virtual memory on the 1gb machine was full to the > limit when it crashed the memory usage of the 768mb machine looked > this this: > > http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/dd15127b7a.jpg > > The moment I close the application that launched the macro, my > ressources get freed. > > So is there a way to free my memory inside my nested loops? > > thanks in advance, > tim >
Could you split the program into one handling the outer loop and calling another program, with data transfer, to handle the inner loops? - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
