memory management

[Sudheer Joseph]

> Python version and OS please.  And is the Python 32bit or 64bit?  How 
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> much RAM does the computer have, and how big are the swapfiles ?
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Python 2.7.3
ubuntu 12.04 64 bit
4GB RAM
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> "Fairly big" is fairly vague.  To some people, a list with 100k members 
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> is huge, but not to a modern computer.
I have a data loaded to memory from netcdf file which is 2091*140*180 grid points (2091 time, 140 latitude 180 longitude) apart from this I define a 2 3d arrays r3d and lags3d to store the output for writing out to netcdf file after completion. 
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> How have you checked whether it's running out of memory?  Have you run 
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> 'top' on it?  Or is that just a guess?

I have not done this but the speed (assessed from the listing of grid i and j) get stopped after j=6 ie after running 6 longitude grids)
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Will check the top as you suggested

Here is the result of top it used about 3gB memory

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 3069 sjo       20   0 3636m 3.0g 2504 D    3 78.7   3:07.44 python  
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> I haven't used numpy, scipy, nor matplotlib, and it's been a long time 
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> since I did correlations.  But are you sure you're not just implementing 
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> an O(n**3) algorithm or something, and it's just extremely slow?
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Correlation do not involve such computation normally, I am not sure if internally python does some thing like that.
with best regards,
Sudheer
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> > from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap as bm, shiftgrid, cm
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> > import numpy as np
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> > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
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> > from netCDF4 import Dataset
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> > from math import pow, sqrt
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> > import sys
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> > from scipy.stats import t
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>   <snip>
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> DaveA