hard memory limits

Robert Kern rkern at ucsd.edu
Sat May 7 09:59:20 EDT 2005


Philippe C. Martin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Why don't you catch the exception and print the trace ?

I don't think a Python exception is ever raised. The error message 
quoted below comes from the system, not Python.

> Regards,
> 
> Philippe
 >
> Maurice LING wrote:

>>This is the exact error message:
>>
>>*** malloc: vm_allocate(size=9203712) failed (error code=3)
>>*** malloc[489]: error: Can't allocate region
>>
>>Nothing else. No stack trace, NOTHING.

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