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author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-03-02 21:06:49 +0000 |
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committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-03-02 21:06:49 +0000 |
commit | 7970f296db4882557630b778d4f82fed186f19e2 (patch) | |
tree | 674f1569e4899e6ed1b06ee64009189435b6eb25 /INSTALL | |
parent | 191d61a768175782efd32a263e82c70bcb0d1401 (diff) | |
download | perl-7970f296db4882557630b778d4f82fed186f19e2.tar.gz |
add note about failed tests on memory starved systems (from
Andy Dougherty)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5455
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
-rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -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: |