[Python-Dev] test_bigmem and test_bigaddrspace broken

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> As mentioned I have access to a 16GB machine which is able to run the
> tests. The problem is that nobody seems interested in maintaining these
> tests.

So what do you propose to do?

I personally don't see that as a problem. Many rarely-used features get
infrequent testing - that's the nature of rarely-used features. In turn,
they tend to break over time, until somebody comes along and fixes them.
That's open source: scratch your own itches.

> As far as I can say, the initial committer is Thomas Wouters, and not
> much happened since then. It seems to me that big companies such as
> Google and Apple would be the primarily concerned ones by such
> scenarios, and willing to ensure they run fine.

I'm not sure Apple has really Python applications running that use a lot
of memory - being a big company doesn't necessarily mean you operate
large machines. I'm sure Google has applications that use that much
memory, and I wouldn't be surprised if Google has also bug fixes for
various bugs in large objects that they haven't been contributing (yet).

In any case, I think it's a good thing that these tests are there for
people to run if they have the hardware and the time. If somebody wanted
to contribute such hardware as a build slave - that could certainly be
arranged.

Regards,
Martin