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If you ever end up on a linux machine that just does not have enough ram to suffice what you are doing and you just need to get the job done you can give it some more swap. You can look up reccomendations for how much swap you should have this is more about just trying to get your job done when you are almost there, but running out of memory on the hardware you have.
make the /swap file
You can put this where you wish, for this example I am going to pop it into
/swap
sudo fallocate -l 4G /swap sudo chmod 600 /swap sudo mkswap /swap sudo swapon /swap
make sure that your swap is on
You can make sure that your swap is working by using the free command, I like
using the -h flag to get human readable numbers.
❯ free -h total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 15Gi 5.5Gi 4.9Gi 458Mi 5.2Gi 9.3Gi Swap: 4.0Gi 0B 4.0Gi
I also used this trick in this article to give my python process a bit more oompf and get it on home.