On 31/08/2011 13:33, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I am using Linux desktops; both incidents were with Python 2.5. Do newer versions of Python respond to this sort of situation more gracefully?
Ironically, Windows does better here and dumps you out with a MemoryError before slowly recovering.
Linux seems to fair badly when programs use more memory than physically available. Perhaps there's some per-process thing that can be used to limit things on Linux?
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