Mike Meyer wrote: > > So why would Apple insist on setting unusably low process limits, when > > the others don't? > > You're making an unwarranted assumption here - that the OP wasn't > creating a large process of some kind.
You need a special license to create large processes on a Mac? I clicked on the google link that Bill posted, and noted that it wasn't exactly something that only affected a single Python user. If some- thing causes problems for many different applications that run fine on other Unix systems, it's pretty obvious that the default OS X con- figuration isn't quite as Unixy as one would expect. > FWIW, OS X has a Mach kernel. The failing vm_malloc call listed in the > OP is a Mach call, not a Unix call. So has tru64. I've done some serious Python stuff on that platform (stuff that included some really large processes ;-), and I never had any allocation problems. But of course, that system was designed by DEC people... </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list