Try to avoid massive debug log file sizes, and travis MemoryError in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10102, https://travis-ci.org/bitcoin/bitcoin/jobs/558040257:
TestFramework (ERROR): Unexpected exception caught during testing
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/travis/build/bitcoin/bitcoin/build/bitcoin-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/test/functional/test_framework/test_framework.py", line 193, in main
self.run_test()
File "/home/travis/build/bitcoin/bitcoin/build/bitcoin-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/test/functional/feature_block.py", line 1222, in run_test
self.send_blocks(blocks, True, timeout=1500)
File "/home/travis/build/bitcoin/bitcoin/build/bitcoin-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/test/functional/feature_block.py", line 1373, in send_blocks
self.nodes[0].p2p.send_blocks_and_test(blocks, self.nodes[0], success=success, reject_reason=reject_reason, force_send=force_send, timeout=timeout, expect_disconnect=reconnect)
File "/home/travis/build/bitcoin/bitcoin/build/bitcoin-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/test/functional/test_framework/mininode.py", line 553, in send_blocks_and_test
assert node.getbestblockhash() != blocks[-1].hash
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/contextlib.py", line 88, in __exit__
next(self.gen)
File "/home/travis/build/bitcoin/bitcoin/build/bitcoin-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/test/functional/test_framework/test_node.py", line 318, in assert_debug_log
log = dl.read()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/codecs.py", line 321, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
MemoryError