➜

This issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub, and is currently read-only.
For more information, see the GitHub FAQs in the Python's Developer Guide.

Author vstinner
Recipients loewis, nadeem.vawda, pitrou, python-dev, vstinner
Date 2012-02-25.00:06:51
SpamBayes Score 0.0003947913
Marked as misclassified No
Message-id <CAMpsgwZPxnYDyGb75qNKTg1N1Qa+WP6LypoCS0RC+aXePGJj-g@mail.gmail.com>
In-reply-to <1330128234.77.0.966000748931.issue14107@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
Content 
>> I ran test_bigmem on my computer. The test pass but it is really slow.
>
> Is this with or without the fix you just pushed? How much RAM does your
> system have? I tried running with "-M 4.5G" on my 8GB machine earlier
> today, and it ate through all of my RAM plus 4GB of swap before the OOM
> killer terminated it.

My PC has 12 GB of RAM and no swap. I ran the test after my commit.

I tried to enable swap but writing to the swap does completly crash my
kernel. My / uses btrfs and btrfs doesn't look to support swap files,
even with a loopback device.
History
Date User Action Args
2012-02-25 00:06:52vstinnersetrecipients: + vstinner, loewis, pitrou, nadeem.vawda, python-dev
2012-02-25 00:06:51vstinnerlinkissue14107 messages
2012-02-25 00:06:51vstinnercreate