[SciPy-User] memoryError when i have plenty of available ram

[David Goldsmith]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:25 PM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Gustaf Nilsson <gustaf at laserpanda.com>
> wrote:
> > Hiya
> >
> > I know someone just started a memory thread, but i didnt wanna hijack
> it..
> > My image processing app that im working on seems to crash with
> "memoryError"
> > when it hits about 1.1gb of mem usage (same on two computers; has 2/4gb
> ram,
> > xp 32bit)
>
> If possible, a small script which reproduces the problem would be helpful.
>
> Keep in mind that on windows, by default, your python script cannot
> use more than 2 Gb anyway, even if you have 4Gb of memory.
>

Interesting.  Is this true in Vista?  Windows 7?  You say "by default": is
there a trivial "workaround" (other than dividing up your memory usage,
e.g., arrays, into blocks smaller than 2Gb)?

DG

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