hard memory limits

[Bill Mill]

On 5/6/05, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
> "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.
> 

A quick google shows it to be mac os X, and a pretty frequent error message.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22vm_allocate%20(size%20%3D%22&btnG=Google+Search

Peace
Bill Mill
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