[Python-Dev] FreeBSD 7 amd64 and large memory tests

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I'll take this up with FreeBSD folk, but I'm open to ideas as to how
> best to deal with the problem in the context of the test suite pending
> resolution by FreeBSD.

Not sure what the test purpose is: if it is to test that you get a
MemoryError in cases where you ask for more than Python could represent,
and the test errs on system where the requested size is actually
representable, the solution then is to fix the test case.

If the test purpose is to trigger a memory error for cases when the
system runs out of memory, the test case should set a ulimit to less
than the physical memory.

It might be useful to have an interpreter-maintained limit on the amount
of memory Python can consume, but such a feature is clearly out of scope
for the current state of the code.

Regards,
Martin