[Python-Dev] Memory tests in Unicode
Nick Coghlan
ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Aug 16 16:44:50 CEST 2008
Facundo Batista wrote:
> The test_raiseMemError() in test_unicode.py is complicating me the
> regression tests: tries to use all the memory in my system, which
> starts to swap as crazy, and almost freezes everything. When the test
> finishes (always pass ok), I have all the memory flushed so it take a
> few seconds to go back to the normal system.
>
> I told myself that this test should run only in some special cases,
> but didn't find any flag in regrtest.py (like "largefile", or
> "network"), to put this test under.
>
> Are you having also this issue? Do you think that it should run not *always*?
>
> It's ok if I add a flag like "memory" that will hold "Tests that use
> large amount of memory. Normally these tests take long to run because
> use all your memory and make the system swap"?
I asked a similar question the other day, so a definite +1 from me.
Cheers,
Nick.
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