Hi Julian,
somehow reproducing this from the same dictionary loaded from a savefile
yields less dramatic results. Here is what I am doing:
sage: # this will downlod roughly 150 Mb of data
load("http://people.disim.univaq.it/~salvatore.stella/tmp/bar.sobj";)
Attempting to load remote file:
http
Hi Salvatore,
I couldn't reproduce the problem that you are seeing.
sage: R. = ZZ[]
sage: D = {R.random_element(): ZZ.random_element() for _ in range(2**18)}
sage: save(D, 'deleteme')
The above uses a bit of RAM but not the amounts that you are seeing.
Usually, I use memray to debug such proble