As discusssed in https://bugs.python.org/issue6083#msg314264 .

diff --git a/Python/Lib/test/test_resource.py b/Python/Lib/test/test_resource.py

index de29d3b..27a1573 100644

--- a/Python/Lib/test/test_resource.py

+++ b/Python/Lib/test/test_resource.py

@@ -102,16 +102,21 @@ class ResourceTest(unittest.TestCase):

     # Issue 6083: Reference counting bug

     def test_setrusage_refcount(self):

+        howmany = 1000000

         try:

             limits = resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_CPU)

         except AttributeError:

             self.skipTest('RLIMIT_CPU not available')

+        try:

+            resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_CPU, (howmany, howmany))

+        except (ValueError, OSError):

+            self.skipTest('Setting RLIMIT_CPU not possible')

         class BadSequence:

             def __len__(self):

                 return 2

             def __getitem__(self, key):

                 if key in (0, 1):

-                    return len(tuple(range(1000000)))

+                    return len(tuple(range(howmany)))

                 raise IndexError

         resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_CPU, BadSequence())