l = range(int(1E9))

[alister]

On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 20:23:31 +0200, Gisle Vanem wrote:

> Cecil Westerhof 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.
> 
> On what OS? If I try something similar on Win-8.1 and CPython 2.7.5
> (32-bit):
> 
>   python -c "for i in range(int(1E9)): pass"
>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>    MemoryError
> 
> 
> --gv

also MemoryError on Fedora 21 32 bit




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