upper memory limit

[Peter Wilkinson]

Why do you say that  single process is limited to 2 Gig?  I believe that on 
windows a single process can run with to 32 bits addressed or 4 Gig of 
space. I have run R with over 2 Gig of memory.

Why would python be limited to 2 Gig (including overhead)? I don't see that 
python should be any different.

Peter

At 01:16 AM 8/8/2004, Tim Roberts wrote:
>Leandro <leandro_ricardo at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >There is an upper memory limit in Python?
> >I have 2GB RAM and 2 processors Xeon 2.4 - (Windows XP), but I just can use
> >1.2G of memory, after this python crashes.
> >Does someone know if python has some memory limit?
>
>You might be surprised to learn that the amount of memory available to a
>single process is (almost) completely unrelated to the amount of physical
>memory in the machine.  Windows is a virtual memory system.
>
>A single process in Windows is limited to 2GB of address space.  Part of
>that is occupied by the Python executable, your DLLs, and the system DLLs.
>
>1.2GB seems a litle low, but it is not entirely unreasonable.
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