[Python-checkins] r70234 - python/branches/py3k/Lib/test/test_bigmem.py

[antoine.pitrou]

Author: antoine.pitrou
Date: Sun Mar  8 00:52:26 2009
New Revision: 70234

Log:
Add notice about strange behaviour of the bigmem tests



Modified:
   python/branches/py3k/Lib/test/test_bigmem.py

Modified: python/branches/py3k/Lib/test/test_bigmem.py
==============================================================================
--- python/branches/py3k/Lib/test/test_bigmem.py	(original)
+++ python/branches/py3k/Lib/test/test_bigmem.py	Sun Mar  8 00:52:26 2009
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@
 #    memuse-per-size should remain sane (less than a few thousand); if your
 #    test uses more, adjust 'size' upward, instead.
 
+# BEWARE: it seems that one failing test can yield other subsequent tests to
+# fail as well. I do not know whether it is due to memory fragmentation
+# issues, or other specifics of the platform malloc() routine.
+
 character_size = 4 if sys.maxunicode > 0xFFFF else 2