Médéric Boquien added the comment: If I remember correctly the problem is that some OS like linux (and probably others) do not really allocate space until something is written. If that's the case then the process may get killed later on when it writes something in the array.
Here is a quick example: $ truncate -s 1T test.file $ ls -lh test.file -rw-r--r-- 1 mederic users 1.0T Apr 2 23:10 test.file $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 110G 46G 59G 44% /home ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21116> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
