[issue7471] GZipFile.readline too slow

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> I tried the splitlines() version you suggested, it thrashed my machine
> so badly I pressed alt+sysrq+f (which invokes kernel oom_kill) after
> about 1 minute so I didn't lose anything important.

This sounds very weird. How much memory do you have, and how large are
the .gz files you are reading? What is your system exactly?

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