malloc (error code=12)

[Arash Arfaee]

Very BIG Jesse!!!! It works on a huge Boolean function.
And thanks Roger. Do you think it will be solved if I run it over another OS
like windows?

Cheers,
Arash

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Arash Arfaee <erexsha at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am writing a multiprocessing program using python 2.6. It works in most
> > cases, however when my input is large sometimes I get this message again
> and
> > again:
> >
> > Python(15492,0xb0103000) malloc: *** mmap(size=393216) failed (error
> > code=12)
> > *** error: can't allocate region
> >
> > and at the and I have these messages:
> >
> >
> > Python(15492,0xb0103000) malloc: *** mmap(size=393216) failed (error
> > code=12)
> > *** error: can't allocate region
> > *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
> > Exception in thread Thread-2:
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File
> >
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/threading.py",
> > line 524, in __bootstrap_inner
> >     self.run()
> >   File
> >
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/threading.py",
> > line 479, in run
> >     self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
> >   File
> >
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/multiprocessing/pool.py",
> > line 259, in _handle_results
> >     task = get()
> > MemoryError
> >
> > Any idea what is wrong here? I didn't attached the code since it is a big
> > program and I don't know exactly which part of my program causes this
> error.
> > And since it is multiprocessing I can't debug it and run it line by line!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Arash
> >
> > --
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> >
> >
>
>
> wow. How big are these objects/input?
>
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