On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 20:23:31 +0200, Gisle Vanem wrote: > Cecil Westerhof wrote: > >> If I execute: >> l = range(int(1E9) >> >> The python process gobbles up all the memory and is killed. The problem >> is that after this my swap is completely used, because other processes >> have swapped to it. This make those programs more slowly. Is there a >> way to circumvent Python claiming all the memory? >> >> By the way: this is CPython 2.7.8. > > On what OS? If I try something similar on Win-8.1 and CPython 2.7.5 > (32-bit): > > python -c "for i in range(int(1E9)): pass" > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<string>", line 1, in <module> > MemoryError > > > --gv
also MemoryError on Fedora 21 32 bit -- I am a traffic light, and Alan Ginzberg kidnapped my laundry in 1927! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
