[pypy-dev] jit.timeshifter.test uses a lot of memory

[Scott Dial]

I'm not sure if there has been a recent change, but I've always noticed 
that this test suite requires a lot of memory. What has brought my 
attention to it especially is that I've been awake while my box has been 
running the test and it brings things to a crawl with swapping :-( I 
can't say for sure what the memory requirements are but it is clearly 
more than what a system with 2GiB of RAM can handle. I can say I've seen 
it using 1.7GiB (right before I cut it off because I needed to get some 
work done).

My first thought is there is something going terribly wrong due to the 
tests being run under win32, but I don't get any errors indicating that 
sort of thing is going on. Is this memory usage intended? Is there 
anything that can be done to reduce it? I'd hate to have to start 
skipping those tests.

-Scott

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Scott Dial
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