Martin Panter added the comment: Perhaps by OS crash you mean either the Linux out-of-memory (OOM) killer, that takes a hueristic stab at killing the right process, or Linux running almost out of memory, and everything grinding to a halt presumably because each task switch needs to re-read its program off the hard disk.
If either is the case, I understand this is part of Linux’s design, called “memory overcommit” or something. It is possible to disable it, though I haven’t tried myself, and many programs (probably including Python) are apparently not compatible. ---------- nosy: +martin.panter _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25465> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
