New submission from Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: It appears that test_unicode::test_raiseMemError was meant to produce a MemoryError. Unfortunately, on my machine (Linux 2.6.25, 32-bit processor, 1GiB main memory, plenty swap), allocation *succeed*, and then brings the machine to a near halt, trying to fill that memory with data.
IMO, the patch should be rewritten to either reliably produce a MemoryError (why not allocate sys.maxsize characters, or sys.maxsize//2?), or else it should be removed. ---------- assignee: amaury.forgeotdarc messages: 71150 nosy: amaury.forgeotdarc, loewis severity: normal status: open title: test_raiseMemError consumes an insane amount of memory versions: Python 2.6, Python 3.0 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3556> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
