Tim <jtim.arn...@gmail.com> writes: > I need to zip up a directory that's about 400mb. > I'm using shutil.make_archive and I'm getting this response: > > Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) > > The code is straightforward (and works on other, smaller dirs): > > shutil.make_archive(os.path.join(zip_dir, zname), 'zip', tgt_dir) > > I guess I could drop the convenience of make_archive and use zipfile but that > seems to be exactly what make_archive does.
>From your description (above and in other messages of this thread), I guess, that the cause is a (running out of) memory problem. Memory allocations are frequent (in many places) and they fail rarely. Therefore, there is quite a high probability that some of those allocations fail to check that the allocation has been successful. If this happens (and the allocation fails), then a "SIGSEGV" is almost certain. I would try to move the task on a system with a larger address space (more RAM, more swap space, maybe a 64 bit system). It may succeed there. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
