I will give it a try with the garbage collector disabled. On 9 December 2010 17:29, Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kap...@case.edu> wrote:
> On Thursday, December 9, 2010, Rob Randall <rob.randa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > But the C++ program using up memory does not slow up. > > It has gone to 40GB without much trouble. > > > > Your C++ program probably doesn't have a garbage collector traversing > the entire allocated memory looking for reference cycles. > > > Does anyone have a 64 bit python application that uses more the 2GB? > > > > On 9 December 2010 16:54, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 14:44:30 +0000 > > Rob Randall <rob.randa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am trying to understand how much memory is available to a 64 bit > python > >> process running under Windows XP 64 bit. > >> > >> When I run tests just creating a series of large dictionaries containing > >> string keys and float values I do not seem to be able to grow the > process > >> beyond the amount of RAM present. > >> > >> For example, on a box with 2GB RAM and 3 GB pagefile the process stalls > at > >> around 2GB. > >> > >> On another machine with 16GB RAM and 24GB pagefile the process stalls at > >> 16GB. > > > > How is it surprising? When you go past the available RAM, your process > > starts swapping and everything becomes incredibly slower. > > > > Regards > > > > Antoine. > > > > > > -- > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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