"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maurice LING wrote: >> Will adding more RAM helps in this case? > > probably. more swap space might also help. or you could use a > smarter malloc package. posting more details on your platform, > toolchain, python version, and list building approach might also > help.
Without platform information, it's hard to say. On a modern Unix system, you only run into system resource limits when the system is heavily loaded. Otherwise, you're going to hit per-process limits. In the latter case, adding RAM or swap won't help at all. Raising the per-process limits is the solution. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list