Re: windows pagfile utilization

2006-08-30 Thread Richard Brodie
"Tim Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Thanks for putting 4 gigs of ram in your machine. How about I let you use 2 > of 'em > while I underutilize the other 2 gigs?" > > Sounds silly, IMHO. Well, for a lot of scenarios, it's going to be the 2GB limit on sy

Re: windows pagfile utilization

2006-08-30 Thread djoefish
I guess that means that I shouldn't waste my money bumping my RAM up from 1g to 2g? What about Linux? Are there constraints there too? djoefish -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: windows pagfile utilization

2006-08-30 Thread Tim Chase
> Not page/swap -- by default Windows only gives 2GB to > applications for data; the rest is held for shared OS kernel > usage. Is it just me or does this seem ludicrous? If I had a bunch of re$ource$ and I employed someone to manage them for me, would I find it acceptable that they consume hal

Re: windows pagfile utilization

2006-08-30 Thread Richard Brodie
"djoefish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > My program still crashes at 2g (according to the task manager). Do I > need to inform python that the pagefile has a new size? How do I check > that python is utilizing the full pagefile? It won't. You'll hit the 2Gb user

windows pagfile utilization

2006-08-30 Thread djoefish
Could anyone help me with this? I am running some memory intensive computations with python on XP, and was running out of memory when the pagefile got full (~2g)...so I reset the windows pagefile to 4g (maximum allowed). My program still crashes at 2g (according to the task manager). Do I need to