64 bit memory usage

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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.

What do you mean by "stalls"? Do you get an exception, or does the program
just slow to a crawl?