[issue1524938] PEP MemoryError with a lot of available memory gc not called

Mark Matusevich mark...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: This is what I got on computer with 512 MB RAM: Mandriva Linux 2009.1 = Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jul 14 2010, 09:23:11) [GCC 4.3.2] - Python process killed by operating system after 14 Microsoft

[issue1524938] PEP MemoryError with a lot of available memory gc not called

Mark Matusevich mark...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: It looks like the severity of this problem is underestimated here. A programmer working with a significant amount of data (e.g SciPy user) and uses OOP will face this problem. Most OOP designs result in existence of some loops