my computer is allergic to pickles

[Bob Fnord]

Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:

> Bob Fnord wrote:

> > I started by using cPickle to save the instance of the class that
> > contained this dict, but the pickling process started to write
> > the file but ate so much memory that my computer (4 GB RAM)
> > crashed so badly that I had to press the reset button. I've never
> > seen out-of-memory errors do this before. Is this normal?
snipped myself
> > Any comments, suggestions?
> 
> Have you seen that one?
> 
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-July/1139855.html

Not until now, but that's interesting. But I didn't even get a
backtrace, just a totally locked up computer!