commit 28bf82661ac9dfaf1b2d0fd0ac98fc0b31cd95bb
author Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Sat Aug 15 11:40:14 2020 -0700
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Sat Aug 15 20:40:14 2020 +0200
tree df57580726f231b858bf74424518d111425f56f9
parent 1864eacc22485b26c0ec0a059c9330f877861afb

bpo-41540: AIX: skip test that is flaky with a default ulimit. (GH-21890) (#21893)

- AIX has extreme over-allocation that is in no relation to the physical
    RAM and swap.

(cherry picked from commit 39dab24621122338d01c1219bb0acc46ba9c9956)

Authored-by: Stefan Krah <skrah@bytereef.org>

Lib/test/test_decimal.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_decimal.py b/Lib/test/test_decimal.py
index ed483a4..fd62f37 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_decimal.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_decimal.py
@@ -5478,6 +5478,9 @@
             self.assertEqual(Decimal.from_float(cls(101.1)),
                              Decimal.from_float(101.1))
 
+    # Issue 41540:
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform.startswith("aix"),
+                     "AIX: default ulimit: test is flaky because of extreme over-allocation")
     def test_maxcontext_exact_arith(self):
 
         # Make sure that exact operations do not raise MemoryError due