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

[Jesus Cea]

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On 08/09/11 09:18, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Ok, I've added "-j4", let's how that works.

It is not helping. it is taking tons of memory yet.

>> Another option would be to have a single Python process and 
>> "fork" for each test. That would launch each test in a separate 
>> process without requiring a full python interpreter launching 
>> each time. Is this the way "-j" is implemented
> 
> It uses subprocess actually, so fork() + exec() is used.

Yes, does it but fork for each test or simply launch 4 processes, each
doing 1/4 of the tests?.

>> BTW, the (nice and helpful) OpenIndiana folks have told me a few 
>> hours ago that they would increase my swap limit to 16GB. I am 
>> now waiting for this change to be done.
> 
> Good news :)

16GB of swap activated a few minutes ago. Thanks, Jon and Alastair :-)
(OpenIndiana guys). Launching buildbots now and crossing fingers...

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