[AIRFLOW] Memory error while using pip install Airflow

Posted on 2017-03-10 13:58  LoveAI  阅读(559)  评论(0)    收藏  举报

File /home/ubuntu/venv/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/cachecontrol/serialize.py, line 87, in dumps     ).encode(utf8),

MemoryError

 

 

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This error is coming up because, it seems, pip's caching mechanism is trying to read the entire file into memory before caching it… which poses a problem in a limited-memory environent, as matplotlib is ~50mb.

A simpler solution, until pip is patched to use a constant-space caching algorithm, is to run pip with --no-cache-dir to avoid the cache:

$ pip --no-cache-dir install airflow