Re: Memory Problems in Windows 2003 Server

2007-10-15 Thread amdescombes
Yes, I think that might be the issue, perhaps I could implement the solution using several dictionaries instead of just one. Are there any classes that implement disk based dictionaries? Thanks, Andre > > I don't know whether Python dictionaries must live in a contiguous piece of > memory, but

Memory Problems in Windows 2003 Server

2007-10-12 Thread amdescombes
Hi, I am using Python 2.5.1 I have an application that reads a file and generates a key in a dictionary for each line it reads. I have managed to read a 1GB file and generate more than 8 million keys on an Windows XP machine with only 1GB of memory and all works as expected. When I use the same