I'm no computer science grad, so hopefully one of you geniuses have some insight on this.
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. Is there a setting in python that needs tweaking in order to get it to chew more? I'd have expected to see more ram get used before choking.
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.
I don't think that 32-bit software (ArcGIS & 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.
I don't think that 32-bit software (ArcGIS & 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.
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:
