Why RAM memory (16GB) is crashed while loading 6GB dictionary file into memory

Question

I have a saved JSON file in my disk which is 6.1 GB. My requirement is to keep that dictionary file memory so that I can replace keys with values in another file.

But I ended up getting Memory error each time when I try to do this step. Can anybody help me load dictionary without getting memory error?

Code is as follows:

with open('file_name.json') as f:
    dictionary = json.load(f)

Answer 1

Your computer won't give acces to any amount of RAM to a process. You should check the limit on your system what the limit is for your Python process, information there .