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Is available memory considered when running tests in parallel ?
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My org is considering using Pytest we have huge amount of integration test, I wanted to check if available ram is considered before starting a test. Our estimate is that each of the test takes around 200MB while executing. Is it possible to limit the number of tests running parallely. What would be the best configuration/option to do it as I havn't found any way to configure this in the docs.
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Start by reviewing pytest-xdist's documentation and parallel test configuration options. Determine whether available memory can be used to limit concurrent tests, and define what configuration or documentation change would be needed to make that behavior clear.
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- Tech stack
- python
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- testing
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- Feature
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- Over a week
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