Rob Randall <rob.randa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to understand how much memory is available to a 64 bit python > process running under Windows XP 64 bit. > > When I run tests just creating a series of large dictionaries containing > string keys and float values I do not seem to be able to grow the process > beyond the amount of RAM present. > > For example, on a box with 2GB RAM and 3 GB pagefile the process stalls at > around 2GB.
What do you mean by "stalls"? Do you get an exception, or does the program just slow to a crawl? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list