64 bit memory usage

[Rob Randall]

I will give it a try with the garbage collector disabled.

On 9 December 2010 17:29, Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan at case.edu> wrote:

> On Thursday, December 9, 2010, Rob Randall <rob.randall2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > But the C++ program using up memory does not slow up.
> > It has gone to 40GB without much trouble.
> >
>
> Your C++ program probably doesn't have a garbage collector traversing
> the entire allocated memory looking for reference cycles.
>
> > Does anyone have a 64 bit python application that uses more the 2GB?
> >
> > On 9 December 2010 16:54, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 14:44:30 +0000
> > Rob Randall <rob.randall2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I am trying to understand how much memory is available to a 64 bit
> python
> >> process running under Windows XP 64 bit.
> >>
> >> When I run tests just creating a series of large dictionaries containing
> >> string keys and float values I do not seem to be able to grow the
> process
> >> beyond the amount of RAM present.
> >>
> >> For example, on a box with 2GB RAM and 3 GB pagefile the process stalls
> at
> >> around 2GB.
> >>
> >> On another machine with 16GB RAM and 24GB pagefile the process stalls at
> >> 16GB.
> >
> > How is it surprising? When you go past the available RAM, your process
> > starts swapping and everything becomes incredibly slower.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Antoine.
> >
> >
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