That makes a lot of sense. I may have to move to 64 version. The only reason I haven't is because I have heard that python 32 bit is more compatible with many libraries. I don't know if this is the right place to ask but Is there any way you know of to increase the limit of python 32 bit higher, lets say 4GB? I would prefer to stay here since I am using several libraries (for other things) and it would be nice to just increase this limit, if possible.
Thanks for the reply. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tamas Nepusz Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 9:16 AM To: Help for igraph users Subject: Re: [igraph] Memory error > Is there some type of limit on igraph as to how many vertices or edges you > can actually add? There is no built-in limit. However, you could actually be hitting the built-in memory limit of a 32-bit Python in a 64-bit environment. You mentioned that the memory usage peaks around 1 GB in your case. 32-bit apps have an approximately 2 GB memory limit on Windows. The problem is that you probably reach a point in the code where igraph needs more storage space for a numeric vector. The default strategy for igraph in such cases is to re-allocate the vector with twice its original length. So, suppose that you have a vector which occupies 0.5 GB. igraph tries to double its length, so it will temporarily need to allocate 1 GB extra space, copy the old vector there, and then deallocate the old vector. It is easy to see that this might cause your app to temporarily hit the 2 GB memory limit. (The problem is further complicated by the fact that the address space of the Python process might be fragmented, meaning that even though it has enough memory available for the new vector, there isn't a single _continuous_ chunk of memory where the new vector could be allocated, so in that case you could also get a MemoryError). Since you have a 64-bit machine, I strongly suggest to use a 64-bit Python installation and a 64-bit version of igraph with it. You can get one from here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#python-igraph T. _______________________________________________ igraph-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/igraph-help _______________________________________________ igraph-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/igraph-help
