On Feb 14, 2010, at 10:16 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > There are three different limits at play here. Since you're still not saying > how you're "measuring" usage, we've all been guessing just which one you're > hitting. There's physical RAM, virtual address space, and swappable space > (swapfile on disk). Each reaches some limit in different ways. > > And there are probably a dozen different ways to measure "memory use," that > get a dozen different answers. If you say which one you're using, that gives > "exactly 2.2 GB," maybe someone will be familiar with that particular > approach, and its meaning.
I ran into the same problem on Mac OS X and investigated it. My problem was that the program reached a memory error after using 2.2GB of memory. Now what caused it specifically I am less sure of, but switching to a 64bit python on a 64bit OS (snow leopard) means that I now frequently move past this boundary (when I have enough memory of course :) Tommy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
