Nadeem Vawda <nadeem.va...@gmail.com> added the comment: > So i finally did some tests using Nadeem's code snippet > from msg133677. The largest top(1) i ever got was > 30477 python3 2.7 00:09.77 1 0 18 77 912M+ 240K > but the system is unusable then.
The code I posted was only intended to run on machines with at least 4GB of free memory. The precisionbigmemtest decorator should cause it to be skipped on machines with less RAM. > Except for all this i don't understand this thread. > Isn't that bot the one for which haypo has noticed those > random failures??? The current status of this issue (as I understand it) is: * test_zlib's test_big_buffer() is failing sporadically on the AMD64 Snow Leopard buildbot (http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/AMD64%20Snow%20Leopard%203.x/) * The cause seems to be a bug in OS X's handling of mmap()'d files, not a problem with the Python code. * Antoine has proposed skipping this test on OS X as a workaround, and no-one has objected to this. I don't think it is necessary to further investigate the behaviour of Snow Leopard's mmap() - we know that it's broken, and we have a fix. At the moment, we need someone to actually write and commit the fix. I would do it myself, but I'm hesitant to commit code without testing it, and don't have access to a Mac system. ---------- stage: committed/rejected -> needs patch _______________________________________ 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
