windows pagfile utilization

[djoefish]

Could anyone help me with this?

I am running some memory intensive computations with python on XP, and
was running out of memory when the pagefile got full (~2g)...so I reset
the windows pagefile to 4g (maximum allowed).

My program still crashes at 2g (according to the task manager). Do I
need to inform python that the pagefile has a new size? How do I check
that python is utilizing the full pagefile?

thanks,

djoefish