[Python-checkins] cpython: Make the formula for this estimate more explicit

[antoine.pitrou]

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e795ab617914
changeset:   72763:e795ab617914
user:        Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
date:        Thu Oct 06 22:09:18 2011 +0200
summary:
  Make the formula for this estimate more explicit

files:
  Lib/test/test_bigmem.py |  2 +-
  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Lib/test/test_bigmem.py b/Lib/test/test_bigmem.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_bigmem.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_bigmem.py
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@
     # suffer for the list size. (Otherwise, it'd cost another 48 times
     # size in bytes!) Nevertheless, a list of size takes
     # 8*size bytes.
-    @bigmemtest(size=_2G + 5, memuse=10)
+    @bigmemtest(size=_2G + 5, memuse=2 * ascii_char_size + 8)
     def test_split_large(self, size):
         _ = self.from_latin1
         s = _(' a') * size + _(' ')

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Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/cpython