[python-committers] Your buildbots are out of memory

[Antoine Pitrou]

On 2013-10-24 16:59, R. David Murray wrote:
> 
> However, it looks like someone has added some tests that use more tmp 
> space,
> since the amount of /tmp that exist has been fine up until this point,
> and the runs on 2.7 and 3.3 are still working.
> 
> I can increase /tmp, but I wonder if there is a new test that should
> be protected with the largefile resource.  Perhaps not,
> /tmp is currently 16MB on those bots, and I'm not sure what we
> consider 'large' for test files.

For test files, I would consider "large" to start around 100MB or more 
:-)
16MB is less than the size of a Python process executing regrtest...
It's incredibly small.

Regards

Antoine.