On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:47:17 +0100, Sion Arrowsmith wrote: > Simon Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I tried to load a 6.8G large dictionary on a server that has 128G of >>memory. I got a memory error. I used Python 2.5.2. How can I load my >>data? > > Let's just eliminate one thing here: this server is running a 64-bit OS, > isn't it? Because if it's a 32-bit OS, the blunt answer is "You can't, > no matter how much physical memory you have" and you're going to have to > go down the database route (or some approach which stores the mapping on > disk and only loads items into memory on demand).
I very highly doubt he has 128GB of main memory and is running a 32bit OS. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
