Running the tests takes ages now on my machine. This is due to a few tests consuming enormous amounts of memory. Swapping causes the test time to increase to hours(!) for some of the tests. The current killer test is algorithm/string/replace on intel 8. Compiling the program consumes ~800MB RAM, which is 3 times as much as my box has built in. This results in a compilation time of 3 hours for that test. Having such tests to run effectively reduces my ability to sort out the problems (I'm currently considering to move the testing for some of the compilers to a different machine. However, this will take some time. I dislike this idea, though, since this will result in Linux tests being split across several sets.) My box sure is underequipped, but 800MB for a single test is way too much, anyway.
I can reproduce that with my 512 Mb laptop: interestingly other compilers don't seem to have an issue with that test, including Intel 8 on Windows (dual booted on the same machine). I'll get on to the folks at Intel about that, it looks like something they might want to look into. John.