Re: [matplotlib-devel] nosetests: too slow, too much memory

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

On 2014/06/04 6:26 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
> A theory...
>
> If I remember correctly, the nosttests was set up to execute in parallel
> using the default Multiprocessing settings, which is to have a process
> worker for each available CPU core. Perhaps this might be the crux of
> the issue with so many simultaneous tests running that the amount of
> memory used at the same time becomes too large. Or, am I thinking of the
> doc build system?
>
> Ben Root

Ben,

Top shows a single process.  The VM is configured with 2 cores.

Eric