Dear Andreas, I have no idea why this should be the case. Will try it on my end and see what is happening! Thanks Leo
On 18 October 2016 at 11:17, Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi Leo, > > I've received a bug report which claims that ruffus probably consumes a > lot of memory in its test suite. While I do not really like to cut from > the testing quality I wonder whether you are aware of this issue and > could find a way to reduce the memory consumption of the test suite. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 02:23:50PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > Package: src:python-ruffus > > Version: 2.6.3+dfsg-4 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Hello Andreas and debian-med. > > > > I noticed that this package requires 18 GB of RAM to build > > (as measured by Committed_AS in /proc/meminfo). > > > > In theory, there is no limit at all regarding how much RAM a package > > may need to be built (there is absolutely no policy about that). > > [ This is the reason why I'm reporting this as wishlist ]. > > > > In practice, packages like this one represent a real challenge. > > > > To put things in perspective: I routinely try to build all source > > packages generating at least one "Arch: all" binary package. > > > > I have collected memory usage for 16500 of those, and currently I can > > build all of them but this one and "axiom" with only 8 GB of RAM. > > > > This makes python-ruffus to be a real "outlier" (in statistical terms). > > > > Would be possible to change the build system slightly so that this big > > amount of memory required to build is reduced significantly? > > (say, reducing it to a half or a quarter). > > > > Note: I think it's not the build itself what uses so much memory but > > the tests that are performed at the end. > > > > Thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Debian-med-packaging mailing list > > debian-med-packag...@lists.alioth.debian.org > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ > debian-med-packaging > > > > -- > http://fam-tille.de >