[Python-Dev] big-memory tests

[Michael Hudson]

"Thomas Wouters" <thomas at python.org> writes:

> Neal and I wrote a few tests that exercise the Py_ssize_t code on 64bit
> hardware:
>
> http://python.org/sf/1471578
>
> Now that it's configurable and integrated with test_support and all, we
> think it's time to include it in the normal testsuite. I'd really like it
> to be in one of the next alphas, so people with an interest in
> insane-sized objects (and insane memory in their hardware) can run the
> tests, and (hopefully) add more. The tests that are there passed on AMD64
> with 16Gb of RAM (although the tests that took 48Gb, and thus a ton of
> swap, took literally days to run,) but there are still many potential
> tests to add.
>
> I still want to add some 'find memory requirements for bigmem tests' and
> maybe 'run only bigmem tests' code to regrtest, and the bigmemtest
> decorator should be moved to test_support so we can intersperse bigmem
> tests with regular tests (say, in test_mmap.) But other than that, anyone
> object to committing this to the trunk (not sandbox)?

Not at all, get it in pronto, I say!

Cheers,
mwh

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