Re: [Python-Dev] bigmemtests for really big memory too slow

2011-09-06 Thread Antoine Pitrou
For the record, I've disabled automatic builds on the bigmem buildbot until things get sorted out a bit (no need to eat huge amounts of RAM and eight hours of CPU each time a commit is pushed, only to have the process killed :-)). It's still possible to run custom builds, of course. Regards Anto

Re: [Python-Dev] bigmemtests for really big memory too slow

2011-09-06 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hello Martin, > In the test suite, we have the bigmemtest and precisionbigmemtest > decorators. I think bigmemtest cases should all be changed to > precisionbigmemtest, giving sizes of just above 2**31. With that > change, the runtime for test_capitalize would go down to 42s. I have started work