Kelson Zawack wrote: > The answer it turns out is the garbage collector. When I disable the > garbage collector before the loop that loads the data into the list > and then enable it after the loop the program runs without issue. > This raises a question though, can the logic of the garbage collector > be changed so that it is not triggered in instances like this were you > really do want to put lots and lots of stuff in memory. Turning on > and off the garbage collector is not a big deal, but it would > obviously be nicer not to have to.
What Python version are you using? The garbage collection heuristic has been tweaked in 2.7, see http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Modules/gcmodule.c?r1=67832&r2=68462 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
