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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2009-03-07 23:52:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2009-03-07 23:52:26 +0000 |
| commit | ec00e2ff45d7068ffee1f0c211fd21d60b08ba21 (patch) | |
| tree | 396a89eaf6ef162b020ad1aaa5b818d80b9f0808 /Lib/test/test_bigmem.py | |
| parent | 7cdb495e90370641f83e70d31d53c4c994672bc2 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-ec00e2ff45d7068ffee1f0c211fd21d60b08ba21.tar.gz | |
Add notice about strange behaviour of the bigmem tests
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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_bigmem.py | 4 |
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_bigmem.py b/Lib/test/test_bigmem.py index 254c21d6f6..7896748fe8 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_bigmem.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_bigmem.py @@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ import functools # memuse-per-size should remain sane (less than a few thousand); if your # test uses more, adjust 'size' upward, instead. +# BEWARE: it seems that one failing test can yield other subsequent tests to +# fail as well. I do not know whether it is due to memory fragmentation +# issues, or other specifics of the platform malloc() routine. + character_size = 4 if sys.maxunicode > 0xFFFF else 2 |