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Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium
New issue 1202 by [email protected]: Too much memory consumed for large
number of test cases, even if suite html files are relatively smaller and
independent
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=1202
Hi,
We are using robot framework 2.7, using maven (the maven robot framework
plugin).
In one of our test scenarios, we have ~40,000 test cases.
However, we tried to split them in different test suites (html files), with
no file exceeding ~200 kb.
In total we have around 750 such files, whose size vary from 35kb to 212kb.
I have allocated 4.6GB to robot process already. Problem is, that robot
seems to be loading all those files before actually executing the first
test (around 3.7GB). This leads to huge memory consumption considering the
html files themselves are 121 mb in all.
Questions / Requests -
1. Is it really required for robot framework to load all test cases? 2. And
can that be disabled somehow, considering anyways every suite will be
independent of the other (at least in our case they are), so an html should
not be loaded unless it is 'referenced' (E.g. for some common keywords)?
3. A suite once executed, should that not be 'unloaded' completely? (the
html file, the tree created by html parser e.g., some other intermediate
structure which now is not relevant for rest of the execution)?
Kindly let me know if some more information is required.
