On Feb 13, 10:25 am, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:21:07 -0800 (PST), hjebbers <hjebb...@gmail.com> > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > > > What strikes me is: > > 1. the crash on windows, but linux works OK (same test sets) > > 2. the linux box has 750Mb RAM, the windows box has 1.5Gb (twice as > > much). > > Which on its own does not mean much. > > Windows in a normal installation only grants 2GB address space to > user code, reserving the other 2GB space for the OS shared libraries. If > your program attempts to allocate over that, it will fail. That the > Windows box has twice the physical memory only means it doesn't resort > to page swapping as soon. > > There is a boot parameter switch that toggles Windows into a 3GB > user/1GB OS mode --
hey, that would be great!! on my 1,5G mahcine ;-) > it is mainly meant for server machines where there > won't be many disjoint OS libraries loaded, but the server applications > need lots of data space. > > What split does the Linux OS use? If it give 3GB to user space, > while you'd start to page swap much soon, you'd also have 50% more > virtual memory that can be allocated than under Windows. > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG > wlfr...@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ I will check this.....any advice on how to check this? henk-jan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
