On 10 Jul, 02:23, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > While I'm not sure how much of Roy's comment was "hah, hah, just > serious", this has been my biggest issue with long-running Python > processes on Win32 -- either power outages the UPS can't handle, > or (more frequently) the updates
Win32 is also the only OS in common use known to fragment memory enough to make long-running processes crash or hang (including system services), and require reboots on regular basis. Algorithms haven't changed, but it takes a bit "longer" for the heap to go fubar with Win64. (That is, "longer" as in "you're dead long before it happens".) For processes that needs to run that long, I would really recommend using Win64 and Python compiled for amd64. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
