Updates:
Status: Accepted
Labels: Target-2.8
Comment #1 on issue 1202 by pekka.klarck: 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
We are going to rewrite test execution logic in RF 2.8 and your request 3)
is hopefully fixed then.
Requests 1) and 2) are not likely to happen, though, unless you are willing
to implement them yourself or sponsor the development somehow. The main
problem with them is that changing the logic is relatively big task. I also
don't think they are that important because you can already now execute
your tests in pieces and combine results with rebot. That works as a
workaround for problem 3) too.
Another solution/workaround you may want to at least try is changing test
data format from HTML to plain text using tidy tool (run `python -m
robot.tidy` for details). Robot at least parses the latter format much
faster, but that shouldn't have too much effect for the memory consumption
after parsing. It would definitely be interesting to know how the file
format affects the overall problem.
