On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:52:35PM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> Oh yes. It's swapping like crazy. Sorry I didn't mention that
> explicitly. (I figured it was obvious!) The machine in question has
> 128 MB of physical RAM. [...]
>
> Specifically, I usually do something like:
>
> ulimit -S -t 300 # Avoid runaway tests.
> ulimit -S -v 98304 # 96 MB max: Avoid runaway memory leaks.
> ulimit -S -c 0 # Writing 96 MB core files wastes a lot of time.
>
> The main result is that the memory footprint of the pge tests appears to
> continuously grow. This is reasonable because they run with -G, i.e.
> garbage collection is turned off. Oddly, if you turn on garbage
> collection, the memory use grows *faster*. Either way, I can't run the
> tests.
With chromatic's patch in r18323 (RT #42320), and removing the -G
flag from the relevant files, I'm now able to run PGE's tests
including p5rx.t and 01-regex.t in under 60MB of virtual
memory. (See below.)
Andy, could you update to r18323, remove the -G's, and see if it
now runs to completion on your Solaris box?
Thanks!
Pm
Results from my x86_64 Linux box, r18323:
$ ulimit -S -v 60000
$ prove -r t/compilers/pge
t/compilers/pge/01-codestring............ok
t/compilers/pge/02-match.................ok
t/compilers/pge/03-optable...............ok
t/compilers/pge/06-grammar...............ok
t/compilers/pge/p5regex/p5rx.............ok
355/960 skipped: various reasons
t/compilers/pge/p6regex/01-regex.........ok
t/compilers/pge/p6regex/builtins.........ok
t/compilers/pge/p6regex/closure..........ok
t/compilers/pge/p6regex/context..........ok
t/compilers/pge/p6regex/subrules.........ok
t/compilers/pge/p6regex/syntax_errors....ok
t/compilers/pge/perl6regex/01-regex......ok
t/compilers/pge/perl6regex/context.......ok
t/compilers/pge/pge-hs...................ok
t/compilers/pge/pge......................ok
t/compilers/pge/pge_examples.............ok
t/compilers/pge/pge_globs................ok
t/compilers/pge/pge_text.................ok
t/compilers/pge/pge_util.................ok
All tests successful, 355 subtests skipped.
Files=19, Tests=2292, 79 wallclock secs (62.03 cusr + 4.06 csys = 66.09 CPU)
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