STINNER Victor added the comment: > mmap.mmap(-1, 2**31 + 5) could be used here.
Yeah, I hesitated to use mmap, but I'm not really a big fan of using directly a mmap object in test_descr. Unit tests are supposed to only test one thing. > If the pages are never touched it won't increase the working set size. It > merely maps the address range with demand-zero pages. It depends on the Kernel configuration. On Solaris, overcommit is disable by default. I prefer to use a regular Python str. Or maybe use a custom Python object for which we can control the output of __len__()? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26423> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
