Running unit tests for Julia proper on home PC stalls computer

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Whenever I try running the tests for Julia itself on my home computer, the system completely stalls out.

Is there a way to keep it from blowing up my system and complete normally?

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How are you running the tests for Julia itself?

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It may be useful to see how build.julialang.org works.

From tester_linux64:

bin/julia rr_capture.jl 163 2a0368e8dc bin/julia -e 'include(joinpath(Sys.BINDIR, Base.DATAROOTDIR, "julia", "test", "choosetests.jl")); Base.runtests(append!(choosetests()[1], ["LibGit2/online", "download"]); ncores=min(Sys.CPU_THREADS, 8, 6))'

From tester_win64:

bin\julia.exe autodump.jl 157 2a0368e8dc bin\julia.exe -e ^"include^(joinpath^(Sys.BINDIR, Base.DATAROOTDIR, \^"julia\^", \^"test\^", \^"choosetests.jl\^"^)^); Base.runtests^(append!^(choosetests^(^)[1], [\^"LibGit2/online\^", \^"download\^"]^); ncores=min^(Sys.CPU_THREADS, 8, 9^)^)^"

The build bot scripts and configuration are located in https://github.com/JuliaCI/julia-buildbot .

If I’m building Julia, then I might run make -j8 testall where 8 is the number of cores I have available.

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I’ve just been doing include("test/runtests.jl") in the REPL. I’ll try that, thanks!

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Also see Base.runtests(): Unit Testing · The Julia Language

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