[Cython] Hudson pyregr testing takes too long

[Vitja Makarov]

2011/4/25 Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de>:
> Stefan Behnel, 07.04.2011 13:52:
>>
>> Stefan Behnel, 07.04.2011 13:46:
>>>
>>> I just noticed that the CPython pyregr tests have jumped up from ~14
>>> minutes for a run to ~4 hours when we added generator support.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://sage.math.washington.edu:8091/hudson/job/cython-devel-tests-pyregr-py26-c/buildTimeTrend
>>>
>>> I currently have no idea why that is (well, it's likely because we
>>> compile
>>> more tests now, but Vitja's branch ran the tests in ~30 minutes). It
>>> would
>>> be great if someone could find the time to analyse this problem. The
>>> current run time makes it basically impossible to keep these tests
>>> enabled.
>>
>> Ok, it looks like this is mostly an issue with the Py2.6 tests. The Py2.7
>> tests take 30-45 minutes, which is very long, but not completely out of
>> bounds. I've disabled the Py2.6 pyregr tests for now.
>
> There seems to be a huge memory leak which almost certainly accounts for
> this. The Python process that runs the pyregr suite ends up with about 50GB
> of memory at the end, also in the latest Py3k builds.
>
> I have no idea where it may be, but it started to show when we merged the
> generator support. That's where I noticed the instant jump in the runtime.
>

That's very strange for my branch it takes about 30 minutes that is ok.

-- 
vitja.