Nadeem Vawda <nadeem.va...@gmail.com> added the comment: Not to worry - as I said in my previous message, I can reproduce the error on my own XP machine.
I also noticed that running test_tarfile alone doesn't trigger the errors, which leads me to suspect that the failure is due to some interaction with another test getting run before test_tarfile. I'm currently trying to determine what this test is. I suspect that the problem is at least partially caused by the fact that tarfile uses a default compresslevel of 9 for .tar.xz archives (rather than the recommended value of 6). According to the man page for the xz tool <http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/xz.1.html>, using a compresslevel of 9 can result in memory usage of up to 800MB during compression, which is a significant fraction of the bot's 2GB of RAM. (I suppose it would be a good idea to mention this in the documentation for the lzma module, so users won't get bitten by this...) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5689> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
