[Python-Dev] Multigigabyte memory usage in the OpenIndiana Buildbot

Jesus Cea jcea at jcea.es
Tue Sep 6 06:09:01 CEST 2011


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On 02/09/11 20:14, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:53:37 +0200 Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es> wrote:
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>> On 02/09/11 17:57, Jesus Cea wrote:
>>> The build hangs or die with a "out of memory" error,
>>> eventually.
>> 
>> A simple "make test" with python not compiled with "pydebug" and 
>> skipping all the optional tests (like zip64) is taking up to
>> 300MB of RAM. Python 2.7 branch, current tip.
> 
> Can you tell if it's something recent or it has always been like
> that?

I can't tell. My host has restricted me recently to 4GB RAM max (no
swap), and the buildbot is failing now, but I don't know if using so
much memory is something recent or not.

Previously I could use up to 32GB of RAM.

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