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["Kevin L. Mitchell" <kevin.mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 13:24 +0100, Soren Hansen wrote:
> = Speed up the test suite =

+1; it can take about 6 minutes for the full suite to run on my dev box,
which can definitely slow me down.

> = Review of existing tests =
> = Test coverage =

One other consideration: We have some sort of memory leaking going on.
I fixed one issue, but it was clearly a small issue, as the overall
memory usage did not change.  By the end of the test suite, up to 45% of
my 1 Gig system memory can be in use by the test run.  This actually
inhibited the crypto tests because they try to start an external
process, which failed due to memory allocation.  I corrected this by
adding some swap, but this isn't the first time I've had this issue: the
problem's getting worse as the test suite gets larger.  My observations
suggest that a big chunk of the memory used is being allocated in
ServersTest (and presumably others like it), but there are clearly other
contributors; unfortunately, I haven't been able to determine what
precisely is allocating all this memory and not releasing it...
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Kevin L. Mitchell <kevin.mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>