Segmentation fault when using a very large input array

[Jeroen]

Hi,

I'm using Sage scripts to run tasks in batch. They look like:

def dostuff(X):
result = [X] #plus irrelevant calculations
return result
print dostuff([1,2,3,4,n])

This worked fine for all recent data sets with an input array size of 1.0 - 2.4M records. However Sage crashes if larger data sets (3.5M - 10.0M)are used with segmentation faults. Is the way I'm using Sage terribly wrong or did I reached some hard boundaries and does it make sense that it crashes? Or does it seem to be a bug? Thanks for your help.

Cheers,

Jeroen

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64 on Intel Xeon E3 with 24GB RAM
Sage Version 6.1, Release Date: 2014-01-30 (GIT)

[Volker Braun]

You need post working code that demonstrates your problem and the error message if you want to get help. There is no built-in limitation on list length, but you might exceed your computer's RAM. Check "ulimit -a".