On 10/06/2016 10:46 AM, Tim wrote: > I need to zip up a directory that's about 400mb. > I'm using shutil.make_archive and I'm getting this response: > > Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) > > The code is straightforward (and works on other, smaller dirs): > > shutil.make_archive(os.path.join(zip_dir, zname), 'zip', tgt_dir) > > I guess I could drop the convenience of make_archive and use zipfile but that > seems to be exactly what make_archive does. > > I'm on FreeBSD, python2.7. > > Anyone seen this before?
Does normal the normal zip utility crash also when trying to zip up this large directory? I'm not familiar with how shutils.make_archive works, but since it's part of shutils, I suspect it's calling the zip command as a subprocess, rather than using the Python zip module. Given the size of your directory I doubt the zip module would work anyway. If the zip command works, you could just execute it using popen from within Python. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
