Open Bug 938682 Opened 12 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Eagerly report OOM to stderr when running tests

Categories

(Core :: Memory Allocator, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
Memory Allocator
Type:
enhancement

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People

(Reporter: jruderman, Unassigned)

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Details

(Keywords: sheriffing-untriaged)

It can be hard to tell whether a test failure was due to running out of memory. OOMing should be reported to stderr. Furthermore, tests that unexpectedly OOM should turn the tree orange regardless of whether the exact OOM that happens to be hit causes the test to fail by its own logic. (cf bug 937550 for JS fuzzing)
Keywords: sheriffing-untriaged
Severity: normal → S3
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