On Friday 06 May 2005 10:29 am, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > 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. > > does Mac OS X ship with memory limits set by default? isn't that > a single-user system? > > </F>
Dear original poster or whoever is interested in OS X: OS X is not a single user system. It is BSD based unix. And its [EMAIL PROTECTED] sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet! (Though I'm using only Linux right now :o/ If configurable memory limits are a problem and if running python from the shell, do: % unlimit You can also change this in your .cshrc, .tcshrc, .bashrc, .k[whatever for korn], etc. if you run a custom shell. Your shell settings for each user are in NetInfo Manager. If you are completely clueless as to what the hell I'm talking about, then stop and try this: 1. start a Terminal 2. type this at the prompt: % echo unlimit >> .bashrc 3. Quit that terminal. 4. Start a new terminal. 5. Start python and make your list. Hope it works. James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
