On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:47:06AM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Happened to see this commit. What's the magic about 10MB? Is there any > understanding of what causes it to fail? What is the failure mode? > Could it just be fragmentation causing the malloc or realloc to fail? > Should we perhaps use a more conservative buffer size, e.g. 1MB or > even 8K (the international standard for I/O buffering :-)?
At least on my Mac, it was a malloc error (a message is printed to stderr by the malloc implementation). SimpleXMLRPCServer ends up catching the MemoryError and keeps running. I don't know why the malloc fails. --amk _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
