On Nov 16, 10:59 am, "Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The GC has a heuristic where it kicks in when (allocations - > deallocations) exceeds a certain threshold, As the available ram increases this threshold can be more easily reached. Ever since I moved to 2Gb ram I stumbled upon issues that were easily solved by turning the gc off (the truth is that more ram made me lazier, I'm a little less keen to keep memory consumption down for occasional jobs, being overly cavalier with generating lists of 1Gb in size...) One example, when moving from a list size from 1 million to 10 million I hit this threshold. Nowadays I disable the gc during data initialization. i. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
