Re: memory use with regard to large pickle files

2008-10-18 Thread Aaron Brady
Catherine Moroney wrote: > I'm writing a python program that reads in a very large > "pickled" file (consisting of one large dictionary and one > small one), and parses the results out to several binary and hdf > files. > > The program works fine, but the memory load is huge. The size of > the pi

Re: memory use with regard to large pickle files

2008-10-18 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Catherine Moroney wrote: > I'm writing a python program that reads in a very large > "pickled" file (consisting of one large dictionary and one > small one), and parses the results out to several binary and hdf > files. Job for a database? -- http://mail.python.org

Re: memory use with regard to large pickle files

2008-10-15 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> The program works fine, but the memory load is huge. The size of > the pickle file on disk is about 900 Meg so I would theoretically > expect my program to consume about twice that (the dictionary > contained in the pickle file plus its repackaging into other formats), > but instead my program n

memory use with regard to large pickle files

2008-10-15 Thread Catherine Moroney
I'm writing a python program that reads in a very large "pickled" file (consisting of one large dictionary and one small one), and parses the results out to several binary and hdf files. The program works fine, but the memory load is huge. The size of the pickle file on disk is about 900 Meg so