Running the tests on macOS

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Are you having issues or success running the tests on macOS?

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The tests are all fixed such that they should pass on macOS with docker, here's my set-up:

• fresh install of the OS
• using system python3.9.6
• running in a virtual environment
• docker desktop 4.16.2 w/ VirtioFS enabled

My mac is a core i5-1038NG7 CPU @ 2.00GHz, with 16GB of memory, I have allocated docker 4 CPUs and 8GB of memory

I ran tox -e py39 -- --maxfail=1 -n 4, the average time for test completion is about 10 minutes.

2203 passed, 16 subtests passed in 457.93s (0:07:37)

Both system and user CPU usage are 50%, memory use is about 12.3GB and the fan is spinning fast :) Increasing the number of CPUs above 4 (what is allocated to docker) does not improve test times, it does even seem to slow the tests down and introduce a random failure occasionally.

For comparison, my desktop is Core(TM) i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz, 64GB of memory, running fedora 37 w/ podman

2203 passed, 16 subtests passed in 223.14s (0:03:43)

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/3723vs2905/Intel-i5-1038NG7-vs-Intel-i7-7700

Note: on the mac I do get a coverage error at test completion which I have not looked into as I intend to move to python3.11 now that this testing is complete. Will see if it exists there.