On 5/6/05, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Maurice LING wrote: > >> Will adding more RAM helps in this case? > > > > probably. more swap space might also help. or you could use a > > smarter malloc package. posting more details on your platform, > > toolchain, python version, and list building approach might also > > help. > > Without platform information, it's hard to say. On a modern Unix > system, you only run into system resource limits when the system is > heavily loaded. Otherwise, you're going to hit per-process limits. In > the latter case, adding RAM or swap won't help at all. Raising the > per-process limits is the solution. >
A quick google shows it to be mac os X, and a pretty frequent error message. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22vm_allocate%20(size%20%3D%22&btnG=Google+Search Peace Bill Mill bill.mill at gmail.com > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
