PC locks up with list operations

[Chris Withers]

On 31/08/2011 13:33, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I am using Linux desktops; both incidents were with Python 2.5. Do newer
> versions of Python respond to this sort of situation more gracefully?

Ironically, Windows does better here and dumps you out with a 
MemoryError before slowly recovering.

Linux seems to fair badly when programs use more memory than physically 
available. Perhaps there's some per-process thing that can be used to 
limit things on Linux?

cheers,

Chris

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