l = range(int(1E9))

[Cecil Westerhof]

Op Thursday 30 Apr 2015 18:55 CEST schreef Jon Ribbens:

> On 2015-04-30, Cecil Westerhof <Cecil at decebal.nl> wrote:
>> If I execute:
>> l = range(int(1E9)
>>
>> The python process gobbles up all the memory and is killed. The
>> problem is that after this my swap is completely used, because
>> other processes have swapped to it. This make those programs more
>> slowly. Is there a way to circumvent Python claiming all the
>> memory?
>>
>> By the way: this is CPython 2.7.8.
>
> It's your operating system's job to handle processes.
>
> If you use xrange() instead of range() then you will get an iterator
> which will return each of the numbers in turn without any need to
> create an enormous list of all of them.

I did it on purpose. Wanted to now the limits. Just need to use ulimit
to get a MemoryError.

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Cecil Westerhof
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