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Re: PC locks up with list operations

Date 2011-08-31 13:40 +0100
From Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk>
Subject Re: PC locks up with list operations
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On 31/08/2011 13:33, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I am using Linux desktops; both incidents were with Python 2.5. Do newer
> versions of Python respond to this sort of situation more gracefully?

Ironically, Windows does better here and dumps you out with a 
MemoryError before slowly recovering.

Linux seems to fair badly when programs use more memory than physically 
available. Perhaps there's some per-process thing that can be used to 
limit things on Linux?

cheers,

Chris

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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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