Re: [Yaml-core] PyYAML hangs when reading a large YAML file

[Misha P. <mis...@gm...>]

On 18 April 2013 21:11, Alexey Zakhlestin <ind...@gm...> wrote:

>
> On 18.04.2013, at 15:17, Misha Penkov <mis...@gm...> wrote:
> > 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?
>

Thank you for your suggestion.  I noticed that RAM usage grew slowly until
it consumed almost the entire available RAM (64GB) on my machine.

Why is this happening, and how can I get it to load the YAML file properly?