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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-03-02 21:06:49 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-03-02 21:06:49 +0000
commit7970f296db4882557630b778d4f82fed186f19e2 (patch)
tree674f1569e4899e6ed1b06ee64009189435b6eb25 /INSTALL
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downloadperl-7970f296db4882557630b778d4f82fed186f19e2.tar.gz
add note about failed tests on memory starved systems (from
Andy Dougherty) p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5455
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@@ -1594,10 +1594,8 @@ external program.
On some systems, particularly those with smaller amounts of RAM, some
of the tests in t/op/pat.t may fail with an "Out of memory" message.
-Specifically, in perl5.004_64, tests 74 and 78 have been reported to
-fail on some systems. On my SparcStation IPC with 8 MB of RAM, test 78
-will fail if the system is running any other significant tasks at the
-same time.
+For example, on my SparcStation IPC with 12 MB of RAM, in perl5.5.670,
+test 85 will fail if run under either t/TEST or t/harness.
Try stopping other jobs on the system and then running the test by itself: