On Apr 21, 2005, at 10:06 AM, Yair Benita wrote:
I am using python 2.3 on Panther and have a question.
I use python to read a huge 1Gb text file, one line at a time.
For each line a functions is performed and the result is written to an
output file. No information should accumulate as the file is being read and
yet, the first few thousands line go very very fast and then the program
slows down gradually.
Any idea what could go wrong. I can't think of any memory leak as most of
the script is fairly simple. Also, looking at the Activity Monitor I don't
see that it takes huge amounts of RAM and there is plenty of free memory
available.
Test with Python 2.4.1. Panther's 2.3.0 is quite old and has a few known bugs (though none that would cause this behavior that I know of). If you get the same results with 2.4.1 then post the script. Presumably if it's not a Python 2.3.0 bug, then doing something wrong, and we can only guess what that is unless you show the script.
-bob
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