python process killed

[Skip Montanaro]

    Kiran> I was trying to run a giant program, which generates something
    Kiran> like 200 million lines of data and write to a file. The python
    Kiran> program stops in between and just displays "Killed" after
    Kiran> terminating.

Are you sure it successfully terminates before getting "killed"?  If you are
trying to manipulate 200 million lines of data in memory I suspect you're
running out of virtual memory.  Try running "top" to monitor the process
size and available free/virtual memory as your program runs.

    Kiran> OS : Linux 7.1
    Kiran> Python Version : 2.2a1
    Kiran> LinuxUser : Ordinary(not root)

While I doubt it's the cause of your problem, you should either not be
running any 2.2 alpha release or be prepared to closely track the changes to
the distribution.  The current stable release is 2.1.1.  The current alpha
release is 2.2a4.

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