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Author vstinner
Recipients benjamin.peterson, eryksun, holdenweb, methane, pitrou, vstinner
Date 2014-03-28.10:28:55
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> For example. I want to write test like this:
>
> @unittest.skip("This test requires huge memory")

There is @test.support.bigmemtest(size=_2G, memuse=1) decorator which
is more convinient than the skip decorators. See
Lib/test/test_bigmem.py.

You can use tracemalloc to get the memory peak:
tracemalloc.get_traced_memory()[1] is the peak.
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