Re: [Boost-testing] how much RAM does regression.py need?

From: Anthony Williams (anthony_w.geo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-04 09:37:36

Clark Sims <clark_sims_boost_at_[hidden]> writes:

>  I was wondering how much ram does the regression test need?  I have a large
> collection of old machines I don't use, I could run it on the old machines
> also, if regression.py doesn't take too muich memory I see that it is using
> 1.4 gig of memory on my machine right now. Is this typical? or does it scale
> the memory request to the amount of memory on the machine?

On one run, I ran out of memory with 1Gb RAM + 2Gb swap, running 4 toolsets on
Windows. On other runs the max usage has been well under that, so I guess it
varies.

Anthony
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