From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jookia <166291@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: gdk-pixbuf: Disable pixbuf-scale test. Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 08:59:37 +1100 Message-ID: <20160207215937.GA4476@novena-choice-citizen.lan> References: <56b2fd41.57116b0a.987be.ffffd924@mx.google.com> <8737t4uvyb.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43593) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <166291@gmail.com>) id 1aSXZH-00078e-PW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:12:32 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <166291@gmail.com>) id 1aSXZH-0005hr-11 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:12:31 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8737t4uvyb.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 09:06:20PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Jookia <166291@gmail.com> skribis: > > > On systems with little ram (2G in my case) the pixbuf-scale test will either > > freeze the system of cause excessive swapping without the test every completing. > > Out of curiosity, did you check how the test manages to achieve this > level or memory greediness? I hadn't dug in to the code any further than I should've as I was unable to run the test suite outside the automatic guix builder, meaning any change I made to test the tests would require me rebuilding the entire package. > Ludo’. Jookia.