malloc (error code=12)

[Jesse Noller]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Arash Arfaee <erexsha at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am writing a multiprocessing program using python 2.6. It works in most
> cases, however when my input is large sometimes I get this message again and
> again:
>
> Python(15492,0xb0103000) malloc: *** mmap(size=393216) failed (error
> code=12)
> *** error: can't allocate region
>
> and at the and I have these messages:
>
>
> Python(15492,0xb0103000) malloc: *** mmap(size=393216) failed (error
> code=12)
> *** error: can't allocate region
> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
> Exception in thread Thread-2:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/threading.py",
> line 524, in __bootstrap_inner
>     self.run()
>   File
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/threading.py",
> line 479, in run
>     self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
>   File
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/multiprocessing/pool.py",
> line 259, in _handle_results
>     task = get()
> MemoryError
>
> Any idea what is wrong here? I didn't attached the code since it is a big
> program and I don't know exactly which part of my program causes this error.
> And since it is multiprocessing I can't debug it and run it line by line!
>
> Thanks,
> Arash
>
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wow. How big are these objects/input?