[Python-Dev] RE: Painful death in debug build (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Sat, 06 Oct 2001 13:49:13 -0400

Using electric fence requires huge amounts of (virtual) memory. Every allocation requires two pages of memory. I doubt running the entire test suite would ever work. I'm having trouble running just testdescr alone with all the tests commented out! I think I'm running into MAXMAPCOUNT (which defaults to 64k).

The trick is to compile it to a .pyc file without efence. The compiler is vastly malloc-happy. Once you have the .pyc, test_descr runs to completion without errors using efence.

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