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| author | Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com> | 2012-03-23 13:11:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2012-05-21 17:51:52 -0700 |
| commit | ff5db609afa520be8c66115e1023668effd5f53e (patch) | |
| tree | f8278afb9edb53928f83ea9f9f6aba57cf896ecd /pod/perlhack.pod | |
| parent | 330e7bfad0c2dfc9f57c79ac8094748ed734fd7e (diff) | |
| download | perl-ff5db609afa520be8c66115e1023668effd5f53e.tar.gz | |
add a directory of tests to run with large available memory
Intended for testing 64-bit behavious
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlhack.pod b/pod/perlhack.pod index 63df5d5dfc..64329edd8a 100644 --- a/pod/perlhack.pod +++ b/pod/perlhack.pod @@ -948,6 +948,13 @@ Setting this variable skips the vrexx.t tests for OS2::REXX. This sets a variable in op/numconvert.t. +=item * PERL_TEST_MEMORY + +Setting this variable includes the tests in F<t/bigmem/>. This should +be set to the number of gigabytes of memory available for testing, +eg. C<PERL_TEST_MEMORY=4> indicates that tests that require 4GiB of +available memory can be run safely. + =back See also the documentation for the Test and Test::Harness modules, for |