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For almost a year now I haven't been able to check out Rakudo and run
`make spectest` on it without locking up my quad-core 2.27GHz Xeon box
with ~1GB of RAM free.
There's a couple of problems with this:
* The default tests run with --jobs
Maybe it should run with one job per ~400MB free, as determined by
$(free -m | grep ^Mem | awk '{print $3}') (on Linux).
* Some tests are *really* expensive.
t/spec/integration/advent2009-day17.t in particular takes ~600MB of
RAM before I kill it and locks up my Linux box before I can log in as
another user and kill it.
While Rakudo is mostly targeted at developers it would be nice if
naïve users like me could check it out and run `make spectest` to see
how it's going without ending up with locked up machines with a load
near 100.
