Nadeem Vawda <nadeem.va...@gmail.com> added the comment: > By the way, at this point I think we could simply skip the test on BSDs > and OS X. The tested functionality is cross-platform, so testing under > a limited set of systems should be ok.
Another solution would be to rewrite the test to not use mmap() at all: @precisionbigmemtest(size=_4G + 4, memuse=1) def test_big_buffer(self, size): if size < _4G + 4: self.skipTest("not enough free memory, need at least 4 GB") data = bytearray(_4G + 4) data[-4:] = b"asdf" self.assertEqual(zlib.crc32(data), 3058686908) self.assertEqual(zlib.adler32(data), 82837919) This is more consistent with the other bigmem tests in test_zlib, but I'm guessing it will mean that the test gets run much less often (since a lot of machines won't have enough memory). If that's OK, then I'd prefer doing it this way (since it keeps things simpler). Otherwise, skipping the test on OS X sounds fine to me. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11277> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com