Yes, the system has 64Gig of physical memory.
What I meant was, is it possible to load to a hdf5 dataformat (basically NumPy array) without reading the entire file at first? I would like to splay to disk beforehand so it would be a bit faster instead of having 2 copies in memory. On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Horace Blegg<tkjthing...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do you even HAVE 14 gigs of memory? I can imagine that if the OS needs to > start writing to the page file, things are going to slow down. > > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list