python crash on windows but not on linux

[hjebbers]

On Feb 13, 12:24 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de... at nospam.web.de> wrote:
> Am 13.02.10 11:50, schrieb hjebbers:
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> > On Feb 13, 10:25 am, Dennis Lee Bieber<wlfr... at ix.netcom.com>  wrote:
> >> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:21:07 -0800 (PST), hjebbers<hjebb... at gmail.com>
> >> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
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> >>> What strikes me is:
> >>> 1. the crash on windows, but linux works OK (same test sets)
> >>> 2. the linux box has 750Mb RAM, the windows box has 1.5Gb (twice as
> >>> much).
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> >>          Which on its own does not mean much.
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> >>          Windows in a normal installation only grants 2GB address space to
> >> user code, reserving the other 2GB space for the OS shared libraries. If
> >> your program attempts to allocate over that, it will fail. That the
> >> Windows box has twice the physical memory only means it doesn't resort
> >> to page swapping as soon.
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> >>          There is a boot parameter switch that toggles Windows into a 3GB
> >> user/1GB OS mode --
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> > hey, that would be great!! on my 1,5G mahcine ;-)
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> You don't get it - it's about the virtual memory address space
> available. This has nothing to do with physical memory. Obviously if the
> latter runs out, the swapping will make the machine painfully slow. But
> that's another issue.
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> Diez

Diez,
you are right; I misunderstood.
henk-jan