Similar Experience with 'Stuck' Loop?

[Adrian]

I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced what I am experiencing (described below) and what the solution might be.

I am looping through a bunch of steps on different shape files.  Every once and a while my loop seems to get stuck on a particular step (e.g. buffering points) and the memory allocated to 'pythonw' starts going up and up.  However, if I kill the 'stuck' process and restart the script, python will successfully complete the step second time.  Anyone else experienced a similar situation and have an explanation?

Thanks,

Adrian

PS - I'm a Python newbie so maybe the solution is fairly simple.

[Lew.Gr...@gov.bc.ca]

Yo Adrian  ( sorry, I couldn't resist...)

 

Have you considered writing any "intermediate" output to a temporary drive ( in the BC government we use T drive).  This may help with memory issues or slow processing.