On 21 July 2010 16:03, Jeroen Demeyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello sage-devel, > > While working on #9343, I discovered that some of the doctests (in > particular, related to elliptic curves) use lots of memory (more than 1GB). > > I know that Sage has a "# long time" option for tests which take a long > time. Maybe there should be an option "# huge memory" or something to > indicate that. > > Is there any policy on how much memory a reasonable doctest should use? > > Jeroen.
What particular test is using a lot of RAM? On what operating system? 32-bit or 64-bit? Although not recently, I've built Sage and it passed all doctests on a machine with 1.5 GB RAM. Only yesterday I built is on a machine with only 2 GB RAM. These were all 32-bit Solaris builds on SPARC. There is some memory leaks on Sage. When I linked Sage on Solaris using a debugging memory tool, I discovered there are memory leaks even before we get the sage: prompt. Some of the functions called had 'pari in the name, so probably related to Pari, though I'm not saying Pari is at fault. Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
