Re: PC locks up with list operations

From	Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject	Re: PC locks up with list operations
Date	2011-09-12 16:53 -0400
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On 9/12/2011 7:40 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article<4e6dc66e$0$29986$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>,
>   Steven D'Aprano<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info>  wrote:
>
>>> mylist = [0]*12345678901234
>> [...]
>>> Apart from "Then don't do that!", is there anything I can do to prevent
>>> this sort of thing in the future? Like instruct Python not to request more
>>> memory than my PC has?
>>
>>
>> For anyone who may care, I can report that ulimit under Linux will help with
>> this situation.
>> [...]
>> Does anyone else think it would be useful for Python's memory manager to
>> enforce user-settable limits?
>
> Not me.  You've already discovered that ulimit does exactly what you
> want.  Why would be gained by having Python duplicate this functionality?

Having it on Windows.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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PC locks up with list operations Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-08-31 22:33 +1000
  Re: PC locks up with list operations Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk> - 2011-08-31 13:40 +0100
    Re: PC locks up with list operations Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-08-31 22:47 +1000
      Re: PC locks up with list operations Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-09-01 11:31 +1200
        Re: PC locks up with list operations Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-08-31 19:53 -0500
      Re: PC locks up with list operations Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-09-12 13:19 +0100
    Re: PC locks up with list operations Robert Spanjaard <spamtrap@arumes.com> - 2011-08-31 16:06 +0200
    Re: PC locks up with list operations John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2011-09-15 12:27 -0700
  Re: PC locks up with list operations Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2011-08-31 08:49 -0400
    Re: PC locks up with list operations Carl Banks <pavlovevidence@gmail.com> - 2011-09-13 06:31 -0700
  Re: PC locks up with list operations Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-08-31 14:56 +0200
  Re: PC locks up with list operations Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown@gmail.com> - 2011-08-31 10:13 -0400
  Re: PC locks up with list operations Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-12 18:44 +1000
    Re: PC locks up with list operations Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-09-12 07:40 -0400
      Re: PC locks up with list operations Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-09-12 16:53 -0400

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