hard memory limits

[Mike Meyer]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:

> Maurice LING wrote:
>> Will adding more RAM helps in this case?
>
> probably.  more swap space might also help.  or you could use a
> smarter malloc package.  posting more details on your platform,
> toolchain, python version, and list building approach might also
> help.

Without platform information, it's hard to say. On a modern Unix
system, you only run into system resource limits when the system is
heavily loaded. Otherwise, you're going to hit per-process limits. In
the latter case, adding RAM or swap won't help at all. Raising the
per-process limits is the solution.

            <mike
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