getting MemoryError with dicts; suspect memory fragmentation

[dmtr]

> I have a long running processing which eventually dies to a
> MemoryError exception. When it dies, it is using roughly 900 MB on a 4
> GB Windows XP machine running Python 2.5.4. If I do "import pdb;

BTW have you tried the same code with the Python 2.6.5?

-- Dmitry