Op Thursday 30 Apr 2015 18:33 CEST schreef Grant Edwards: > On 2015-04-30, Cecil Westerhof <ce...@decebal.nl> wrote: >> If I execute: >> l = range(int(1E9) >> >> The python process gobbles up all the memory and is killed. The >> problem is that after this my swap is completely used, because >> other processes have swapped to it. This make those programs more >> slowly. Is there a way to circumvent Python claiming all the >> memory? > > I presume "don't do that" has already occured to you?
Well, it is just playing with the possibilities/limits of Python. Better getting the problem now, then when I can not afford to lose time. ;-) > You can always use ulimit to limit the memory allowed for the > process running Python. That works, yes. Now I get a MemoryError and the other processes are left alone. Now determining what are the best values. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list