Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] seg fault in intelOSX+python2.4

2007-08-31 Thread Ronald Oussoren
David, It might be stacksize related, you could try to to increase that to see if that helps. If you use bash you can use the following procedure to increase the stack size: $ ulimit -Hs $ ulimit -s This increases the stacksize limit to the hard limit for the stack size. This wouldn't be re

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] seg fault in intelOSX+python2.4

2007-08-31 Thread David Worrall
Thanks for your feedback Ronald. The file is quite large: 4-5 GB pytables buffers the data and controlling the buffer size occasionally stops or slows the rot. The code has been tested under Linux without incident. [EMAIL PROTECTED], one of the developers of pytables wrote: > A Tuesday 21 August

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] seg fault in intelOSX+python2.4

2007-08-29 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 30 Aug, 2007, at 1:56, David Worrall wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been using PyTables (www.pytables.org) with python2.4 on intel > Mac OSX 10.4.10 > and I'm running into a seg. fault when generating a large hdf5 file. > > Almost certainly something to do with relationship between OS and > python.