Re: insufficient memory problem in running .exe file in ipython

2010-07-15 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:54:19 -0700, youngung wrote: > Hello! > > I came across a problem in running a .exe file through ipython. """ > os.system(' ~.exe')""" was used. The error message popped up says > > Memory error: insufficient physical memory available > > What should I try further?

insufficient memory problem in running .exe file in ipython

2010-07-15 Thread youngung
Hello! I came across a problem in running a .exe file through ipython. """ os.system(' ~.exe')""" was used. The error message popped up says Memory error: insufficient physical memory available What should I try further? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: memory problem with list creation

2010-01-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:03:52 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Again, the technique you are using does a pointless amount of extra > work. The values in the xrange object are already floats, calling float > on them just wastes time. Er what? Sorry, please ignore that. This is completely untrue --

Re: memory problem with list creation

2010-01-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
responsible for the memory overhead. I doubt it. Even using range with 8 million floats only wastes 35 MB or so. That's wasteful, but not excessively so. > Does anybody know why > this happens and if there's a way to avoid this memory problem? > > First the line(s) pyth

Re: memory problem with list creation

2010-01-13 Thread Gabriel Genellina
e for the memory overhead. Does anybody know why this happens and if there's a way to avoid this memory problem? First the line(s) python code I executed. Then the memory usage of the process: Mem usage after creation/populating of big_list sys.getsizeof(big_list) Mem usage after deletion o

Re: memory problem with list creation

2010-01-13 Thread Stefan Behnel
Allard Warrink, 13.01.2010 15:24: so I did some investigation on the memory use of the script. I found out that when i populated the lists with floats using a for ... in range() loop a lot of overhead memory is used and that this memory is not freed after populating the list and is also not freed

Re: memory problem with list creation

2010-01-13 Thread Stefan Behnel
Allard Warrink, 13.01.2010 15:24: I found out that when i populated the lists with floats using a for ... in range() loop a lot of overhead memory is used Note that range() returns a list in Python 2.x. For iteration, use xrange(), or switch to Python 3 where range() returns an iterable. Ste

memory problem with list creation

2010-01-13 Thread Allard Warrink
this happens and if there's a way to avoid this memory problem? First the line(s) python code I executed. Then the memory usage of the process: Mem usage after creation/populating of big_list sys.getsizeof(big_list) Mem usage after deletion of big_list big_list = [0.0] * 2700*3250 40 35 6 big_l

Re: Memory problem with threading

2008-01-15 Thread Clement
On Jan 16, 5:24 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I made a string parser program, it has a main function and a working > thread class. When it is running in 24h non-stop, the memory run out. > I dont Know why. Do anybody know somekind of debugger that can i see > what is

Memory problem with threading

2008-01-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi! I made a string parser program, it has a main function and a working thread class. When it is running in 24h non-stop, the memory run out. I dont Know why. Do anybody know somekind of debugger that can i see what is eating the memory? Maybe there is a list or value or dictionary that is growin

Re: Memory problem

2007-11-16 Thread Rolf Wester
Hi, thank you for your comments and your hints (I probably deserve some kind of subtle irony). I found the problem: I thought a numpy array A has shape (n,) but actually it had shape (n,1). In the loop I sampled a value from that array: v.append(A[i]) So what happened was that I got a view of

Re: Memory problem

2007-11-15 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:10:06 -0300, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Rolf Wester wrote: > >> Sorry, of course your are wright. I'm running Python2.5 on Linux, my >> program imports numpy, matplotlib, sys and a python module of my own. >> This module uses numpy and scipy.weave for imbe

Re: Memory problem

2007-11-15 Thread Peter Otten
Rolf Wester wrote: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> Rolf Wester wrote: >>> I have a strange (for me) memory problem. When running a loop in a >>> Python program memory usage increases from about 4% up to 100%. I do a >>> gc.collect() every loop cycle but this doe

Re: Memory problem

2007-11-15 Thread Rolf Wester
ve me hint on what I could try. Thank you in advance Rolf Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Rolf Wester wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a strange (for me) memory problem. When running a loop in a >> Python program memory usage increases from about 4% up to 100%. I do a >&g

Re: Memory problem

2007-11-15 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Rolf Wester wrote: > Hi, > > I have a strange (for me) memory problem. When running a loop in a > Python program memory usage increases from about 4% up to 100%. I do a > gc.collect() every loop cycle but this doesn't help. There are about > 67000 objects that are

Memory problem

2007-11-15 Thread Rolf Wester
Hi, I have a strange (for me) memory problem. When running a loop in a Python program memory usage increases from about 4% up to 100%. I do a gc.collect() every loop cycle but this doesn't help. There are about 67000 objects that are tracked by the garbage collector. This number does v

Re: Memory Problem

2007-09-19 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:24:46 -0300, Christoph Scheit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: >> >> > # add row i and increment number of rows >> >> > self.rows.append(DBRow(self, self.nRows)) >> >> > self.nRows += 1 >> >> This looks suspicious, and may indicate that your structure contains >> cycles, a

Re: Memory Problem

2007-09-18 Thread Christoph Scheit
Hi, Thank you all very much, so I will consider using a database. Anyway I would like how to detect cycles, if there are. > >> > # add row i and increment number of rows > >> > self.rows.append(DBRow(self, self.nRows)) > >> > self.nRows += 1 > > This looks suspicious, and may indicate that you

Re: Memory Problem

2007-09-18 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Christoph Scheit a écrit : > On Tuesday 18 September 2007 15:10, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: >> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:06:22 +0200, Christoph Scheit wrote: >>> Then the data is added to a table, which I use for the actual >>> Post-Processing. The table is actually a Class with several "Columns"

Re: Memory Problem

2007-09-18 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:58:42 -0300, Christoph Scheit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > I have to deal with several millions of data, actually I'm trying an > example > with > 360 grid points and 1 time steps, i.e. 3 600 000 entries (and each > row > consits of 4 int and one float) > Of cou

Re: Memory Problem

2007-09-18 Thread Christoph Scheit
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 15:10, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:06:22 +0200, Christoph Scheit wrote: > > Then the data is added to a table, which I use for the actual > > Post-Processing. The table is actually a Class with several "Columns", > > each column internally b

Re: Memory Problem

2007-09-18 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:06:22 +0200, Christoph Scheit wrote: > Then the data is added to a table, which I use for the actual Post-Processing. > The table is actually a Class with several "Columns", each column internally > being represented by array. Array or list? > # create reader > breader = B

Memory Problem

2007-09-18 Thread Christoph Scheit
Hi, I have a short script/prog in order to read out binary files from a numerical simulation. This binary files still need some post-processing, which is summing up results from different cpu's, filtering out non-valid entrys and bringing the data in some special order. Reading the binary data i

Re: Memory problem with Python

2007-06-18 Thread Josiah Carlson
Squzer Crawler wrote: > On Jun 18, 11:06 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Jun 17, 8:51 pm, Squzer Crawler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> i am developing distributed environment in my college using Python. I >>> am using therads in client for downloading wepages. Even thou

Re: Memory problem with Python

2007-06-17 Thread Squzer Crawler
On Jun 18, 11:06 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 17, 8:51 pm, Squzer Crawler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > i am developing distributed environment in my college using Python. I > > am using therads in client for downloading wepages. Even though i am > > reusing the th

Re: Memory problem with Python

2007-06-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Jun 17, 8:51 pm, Squzer Crawler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am developing distributed environment in my college using Python. I > am using therads in client for downloading wepages. Even though i am > reusing the thread, memory usage get increased. I don know why.? I am > using BerkelyDB for

Memory problem with Python

2007-06-17 Thread Squzer Crawler
i am developing distributed environment in my college using Python. I am using therads in client for downloading wepages. Even though i am reusing the thread, memory usage get increased. I don know why.? I am using BerkelyDB for URLQueue, BeautifulShop for Parsing the webpages. Any idea of redus

Re: Memory problem

2006-08-15 Thread Yi Xing
I used the array module and loaded all the data into an array. Everything works fine now. On Aug 14, 2006, at 4:01 PM, John Machin wrote: > Yi Xing wrote: >> Thanks! I just found that that I have no problem with >> x=[[10.0]*2560*2560]*500, but x=range(1*2560*2560*30) doesn't work. >> > > range(1

Re: Memory problem

2006-08-14 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Yi Xing wrote: > Is there a way that I can define a two-dimensional array in > array.array()? Thanks. If you need more than one dimension you really should take a look at `numarray` or `numpy`. What are you going to do with the data once it's loaded into memory? Ciao,

Re: Memory problem

2006-08-14 Thread John Machin
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > John Machin wrote: > > Incredible. That's only 34 MB. What is the size of your paging file? > > What memory guzzlers were you running at the same time? What was the > > Task Manager "Performance" pane showing while your test was running? > > What version of Python? > > He

Re: Memory problem

2006-08-14 Thread John Machin
Yi Xing wrote: > Thanks! I just found that that I have no problem with > x=[[10.0]*2560*2560]*500, but x=range(1*2560*2560*30) doesn't work. > range(1*2560*2560*30) is creating a list of 196M *unique* ints. Assuming 32-bit ints and pointers: that's 4 bytes each for the value, 4 for the type pointe

Re: Memory problem

2006-08-14 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Yi Xing wrote: > Thanks! I just found that that I have no problem with > x=[[10.0]*2560*2560]*500, but x=range(1*2560*2560*30) doesn't work. That's no surprise. In the first case, try x[0][0] = 20.0 print x[1][0] You have the very same (identical) list of 2560*2560 values in x 500 times. To cre

Re: Memory problem

2006-08-14 Thread Martin v. Löwis
John Machin wrote: > Incredible. That's only 34 MB. What is the size of your paging file? > What memory guzzlers were you running at the same time? What was the > Task Manager "Performance" pane showing while your test was running? > What version of Python? He didn't say Windows (so far). AFAICT,

Re: Memory problem

2006-08-14 Thread John Machin
Yi Xing wrote: > On a related question: how do I initialize a list or an array with a > pre-specified number of elements, something like > int p[100] in C? I can do append() for 100 times but this looks silly... > > Thanks. > > Yi Xing In the case of an array, you may wish to consider the fromfil

Re: Memory problem

2006-08-14 Thread Yi Xing
Is there a way that I can define a two-dimensional array in array.array()? Thanks. On Aug 14, 2006, at 2:28 PM, John Machin wrote: > Yi Xing wrote: >> I tried the following code: >> > i=0 > n=2600*2600*30 > a=array.array("f") > while (i<=n): >> .. i=i+1 >> .. a.append(floa

Re: Memory problem

2006-08-14 Thread Yi Xing
Thanks! I just found that that I have no problem with x=[[10.0]*2560*2560]*500, but x=range(1*2560*2560*30) doesn't work. -Yi On Aug 14, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Larry Bates wrote: > Yi Xing wrote: >> On a related question: how do I initialize a list or an array with a >> pre-specified number of elemen

Re: Memory problem

2006-08-14 Thread Larry Bates
Yi Xing wrote: > On a related question: how do I initialize a list or an array with a > pre-specified number of elements, something like > int p[100] in C? I can do append() for 100 times but this looks silly... > > Thanks. > > Yi Xing > Unlike other languages this is seldom done in Python. I t

Re: Memory problem

2006-08-14 Thread John Machin
Yi Xing wrote: > I tried the following code: > > >>> i=0 > >>> n=2600*2600*30 > >>> a=array.array("f") > >>> while (i<=n): > .. i=i+1 > .. a.append(float(i)) Not a good idea. The array has to be resized, which may mean that a realloc won't work because of fragmentation, you're out of luck

Re: Memory problem

2006-08-14 Thread Thomas Nelson
Yi Xing wrote: > On a related question: how do I initialize a list or an array with a > pre-specified number of elements, something like > int p[100] in C? I can do append() for 100 times but this looks silly... > > Thanks. > > Yi Xing Use [0]*100 for a list. THN -- http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: Memory problem

2006-08-14 Thread Simon Forman
Yi Xing wrote: > On a related question: how do I initialize a list or an array with a > pre-specified number of elements, something like > int p[100] in C? I can do append() for 100 times but this looks silly... > > Thanks. > > Yi Xing You seldom need to do that in python, but it's easy enough:

Re: Memory problem

2006-08-14 Thread Yi Xing
On a related question: how do I initialize a list or an array with a pre-specified number of elements, something like int p[100] in C? I can do append() for 100 times but this looks silly... Thanks. Yi Xing -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Memory problem

2006-08-14 Thread Larry Bates
Yi Xing wrote: > Hi, > > I need to read a large amount of data into a list. So I am trying to see > if I'll have any memory problem. When I do > x=range(2700*2700*3) I got the following message: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1,

Memory problem

2006-08-14 Thread Yi Xing
I tried the following code: >>> i=0 >>> n=2600*2600*30 >>> a=array.array("f") >>> while (i<=n): .. i=i+1 .. a.append(float(i)) .. Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 3, in ? MemoryError to see the size of the array at the time of memory error: >>>len(a) 8539248. I use Wind

Re: Memory problem

2006-08-14 Thread Tim Chase
> I need to read a large amount of data into a list. So I am trying to > see if I'll have any memory problem. When I do > x=range(2700*2700*3) I got the following message: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in ? > MemoryError >

Re: Memory problem

2006-08-14 Thread John Machin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you know that you need floats only, then you can use a typed array > (an array.array) instead of an untyped array (a Python list): > > import array > a = array.array("f") > Clarification: typecode 'f' stores a Python float (64-bits, equivalent to a C double) as a 32

Re: Memory problem

2006-08-14 Thread John Machin
Yi Xing wrote: > Hi, > > I need to read a large amount of data into a list. So I am trying to > see if I'll have any memory problem. When I do > x=range(2700*2700*3) I got the following message: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1

Re: Memory problem

2006-08-14 Thread bearophileHUGS
Yi Xing wrote: > I need to read a large amount of data into a list. So I am trying to > see if I'll have any memory problem. When I do > x=range(2700*2700*3) I got the following message: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in ? > MemoryE

Memory problem

2006-08-14 Thread Yi Xing
Hi, I need to read a large amount of data into a list. So I am trying to see if I'll have any memory problem. When I do x=range(2700*2700*3) I got the following message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? MemoryError Any way to get around this pr

Re: Update on Memory problem with NumPy arrays

2006-06-21 Thread sonjaa
I've been in contact with Travis O, and he said it was fixed in the SVN. thanks for the suggestions, I'll try them out now. best Sonja Filip Wasilewski wrote: > sonjaa wrote: > > Hi > > > > last week I posted a problem with running out of memory when changing > > values in NumPy arrays. Since th

Re: Update on Memory problem with NumPy arrays

2006-06-21 Thread Filip Wasilewski
sonjaa wrote: > Hi > > last week I posted a problem with running out of memory when changing > values in NumPy arrays. Since then I have tried many different > approaches and > work-arounds but to no avail. [...] Based on the numpy-discussion this seems to be fixed in the SVN now(?). Anyway, you

Re: Update on Memory problem with NumPy arrays

2006-06-21 Thread Fredrik Lundh
sonjaa wrote: > Also, are there other python methods/extensions that can create > multi-deminsional arrays? if this example is typical for the code you're writing, you might as well use nested Python lists: def make_array(width, height, value): out = [] for y in range(hei

Re: Update on Memory problem with NumPy arrays

2006-06-21 Thread Robert Kern
sonjaa wrote: > Hi > > last week I posted a problem with running out of memory when changing > values in NumPy arrays. Since then I have tried many different > approaches and > work-arounds but to no avail. > > I was able to reduce the code (see below) to its smallest size and > still > have the

Update on Memory problem with NumPy arrays

2006-06-21 Thread sonjaa
Hi last week I posted a problem with running out of memory when changing values in NumPy arrays. Since then I have tried many different approaches and work-arounds but to no avail. I was able to reduce the code (see below) to its smallest size and still have the problem, albeit at a slower rate.