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Author neologix
Recipients aaron315, brian.curtin, neologix, petri.lehtinen, skrah
Date 2012-03-20.08:43:53
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Message-id <1332233040.84.0.00731689547779.issue14370@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I think you're simply running OOM, and Linux is thrashing to death.
If you wait long enough, the process should get nuked by the OOM killer (well, in theory).

What happens if you disable swap altogether ('swapoff -a')?
You can also change to strict overcommitting ('echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory').

Anyway, I guess you would get the same effect by simply running
list(range(<huge number>))...
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2012-03-20 08:44:00neologixsetrecipients: + neologix, brian.curtin, skrah, petri.lehtinen, aaron315
2012-03-20 08:44:00neologixsetmessageid: <1332233040.84.0.00731689547779.issue14370@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2012-03-20 08:43:54neologixlinkissue14370 messages
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