Nadeem Vawda <nadeem.va...@gmail.com> added the comment: > Uh, does it? With 4G it should raise OverflowError, and not try to do > anything else. > Could I ask you to try to take a look? :S
Sure; I'll see what I can figure out tomorrow. > Running bigmem tests in parallel doesn't make much sense IMO. You want > to run as many of them as you can, which requires that you allocate all > memory to *one* test process. Yeah, actually running them in parallel isn't a sensible use. But it bit me because I was just using "make test EXTRATESTOPTS='-uall -M11G test_pickle'". It would be nice to have a warning so other people don't get confused by the same problem. I guess that shouldn't be too hard to arrange. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11564> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com