topic Re: Python memory error! in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-memory-error/m-p/387356#M30595 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>^^^&nbsp; thanks!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:58:43 GMT KevinBell 2012-06-19T19:58:43Z Python memory error! https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-memory-error/m-p/387354#M30593 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm no computer science grad, so hopefully one of you geniuses have some insight on this.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm running a virtual machine w/ 8 GB ram and trying to scale up a process that works well with smaller amounts of data, but python is throwing a memory error when it uses up about 3 GB of ram.&nbsp; Is there a setting in python that needs tweaking in order to get it to chew more?&nbsp; I'd have expected to see more ram get used before choking.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If anyone's interested, the script takes multiple grids with different values and combines them into a single point fc with attributes for each of the grids values.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:08:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-memory-error/m-p/387354#M30593 KevinBell 2012-06-19T19:08:16Z Re: Python memory error! https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-memory-error/m-p/387355#M30594 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I don't think that 32-bit software (ArcGIS &amp; the version of Python that comes with it) can address over 3Gb. You may need to re-work your code so it doesn't use as much memory.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>PS: I am a Computer Science grad.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:55:01 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-memory-error/m-p/387355#M30594 BruceNielsen 2012-06-19T19:55:01Z Re: Python memory error! https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-memory-error/m-p/387356#M30595 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>^^^&nbsp; thanks!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:58:43 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-memory-error/m-p/387356#M30595 KevinBell 2012-06-19T19:58:43Z Re: Python memory error! https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-memory-error/m-p/387357#M30596 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>This is an interesting article about making your Python setup large address aware.</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://gisgeek.blogspot.com/2012/01/set-32bit-executable-largeaddressaware.html">http://gisgeek.blogspot.com/2012/01/set-32bit-executable-largeaddressaware.html</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm not encouraging it (use at your own risk), but you may find gains from it.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:50:05 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-memory-error/m-p/387357#M30596 KevinHibma 2012-06-19T20:50:05Z Re: Python memory error! https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-memory-error/m-p/387358#M30597 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You may also wish to have a look at this recent thread, as it discusses issues and solutions regarding 32-bit / 64 bit memory space and Python/ArcGIS too:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><STRONG>Large Dictionary Compression?</STRONG><BR /><A href="http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/58348-Large-Dictionary-Compression?highlight=32+bit+stream+network">http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/58348-Large-Dictionary-Compression?highlight=32+bit+stream+network</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Marco</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:05:30 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-memory-error/m-p/387358#M30597 MarcoBoeringa 2012-06-20T13:05:30Z