On Feb 13, 12:24 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de...@nospam.web.de> wrote: > Am 13.02.10 11:50, schrieb hjebbers: > > > > > 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 ;-) > > You don't get it - it's about the virtual memory address space > available. This has nothing to do with physical memory. Obviously if the > latter runs out, the swapping will make the machine painfully slow. But > that's another issue. > > Diez
Diez, you are right; I misunderstood. henk-jan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
