On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:21:22 -0500, Echavarria Gregory, Maria Angelica wrote:
> I am developing a program using Python 2.5.4 in windows 32 OS. The amount > of data it works with is huge. I have managed to keep memory footprint > low, but have found that, independent of the physical RAM of the machine, > python always gives the MemoryError message when it has occupied exactly > only 2.2 GB. I have tested this in 4 different machines, all with memory > of 3 to 4 GB... I'm amazed. > > Could any of you please help me to figure out how to change that limit? I > typed help(MemoryError) and it is a class itself, but that help told me > nothing I can use... A single process can't use much more than 2GiB of RAM without a 64-bit CPU and OS. If you're stuck with a 32-bit system, you really need to figure out how to limit the amount of data which is kept in memory at any one time. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
