Re: PyYAML hangs when reading a large YAML file

Alexey Zakhlestin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.yaml.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 18.04.2013, at 15:17, Misha Penkov <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to load data from a large YAML file (approx. 300MB).  PyYAML hangs when I try to load using this code:
> 
>     import yaml
>     y = yaml.load(open("/tmp/tmp6aJfKz"))
> 
> The YAML file itself is valid (it is being output by OpenCV).
> 
> Can anyone suggest a way to diagnose this problem?  I can provide the file, but as I've already mentioned, it's fairly large.

did you check resource-usage? could it be, that Python just grabbed all RAM it could reach and started to actively use swap?


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