On 9/12/2011 7:40 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
In article<4e6dc66e$0$29986$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano<steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
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Apart from "Then don't do that!", is there anything I can do to prevent
this sort of thing in the future? Like instruct Python not to request more
memory than my PC has?
For anyone who may care, I can report that ulimit under Linux will help with
this situation.
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Does anyone else think it would be useful for Python's memory manager to
enforce user-settable limits?
Not me. You've already discovered that ulimit does exactly what you
want. Why would be gained by having Python duplicate this functionality?
Having it on Windows.
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