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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:20:26 -0700
From: Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
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On 2/14/06, Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@math.ist.utl.pt> wrote:
>         root@jmaa ~ $ python -c "s='x'*(4*(1024*1024))"
>         ~
>         root@jmaa ~ $ python -c "s='x'*(8*(1024*1024))"
>         ~
>         root@jmaa ~ $ python -c "s='x'*(16*(1024*1024))"
>         ~
>         root@jmaa ~ $ python -c "s='x'*(32*(1024*1024))"
>         ~
>         root@jmaa ~ $ python -c "s='x'*(64*(1024*1024))"
>         Traceback (most recent call last):
>           File "<string>", line 1, in ?
>         MemoryError

Any chance this is a resource limit issue?

ulimit -l -m

-Richard

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