En Tue, 13 May 2008 15:18:31 -0300, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
escribió:
On 13 Maj, 18:59, Filip Štědronský <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Út, kvě 13, 2008 at 06:49:33 +0200, globalrev wrote:
> if i do something like
> while 1:
> print "x"
> will the program ever stop because it runs out of memory?
No, there is no reason to run out of memory. This will simply
make an everlasting x-printer and there is no need to store
anything [...]
and when the program get skiled because out of memory all this will be
deleted from the memory?
Yes. That's the operating system job.
so there is no way that you can, by accident, fill your whole
harddrive and make it unusable?
and RAM-memory always get cleaned out when not used i guess?
We were talking of RAM, including virtual memory backed by disk space.
You *may* fill your whole disk if you keep writing data. If you invoke
your example above using:
python neverending.py > output
the "output" file will grow indefinitely until you kill the program or you
get a "disk full" exception.
That disk space is not cleared when the program exits - you have to
explicitely delete the file.
Note that none of this is Python specific.
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