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[Frank Schima]

On May 29, 2008, at 2:18 PM, Georg wrote:

> I am trying to build a data structure in Python which exceeds 4GB in  
> size (I have 10GB of RAM) and python exits with the following error  
> when it hits 4GB:
>
> Python(23121) malloc: *** vm_allocate(size=262144) failed (error  
> code=3)
> Python(23121) malloc: *** error: can't allocate region
> Python(23121) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
>
> My hope is that Leopard ships with a 64-bit version of Python, so  
> that I can at least fill up the 10GB of RAM that I have.

I have the latest Mac Pro with 10.5.3. I ran the sys.maxint test and  
got the 32-bit result. I tried both the Apple python and the MacPorts  
python 2.5.2.


Cheers!
Frank Schima
Boulder, CO
schimaf at boulder.nist.gov



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