
The application can set environ['eventlet.minimum_write_chunk_size'] which will override the minimum_chunk_size set on server initialization for a single request. https://bitbucket.org/eventlet/eventlet/pull-request/37/allow-minimum_chunk_size-to-be-overriden
The tests are intended to be run using Nose. http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/ To run tests, simply install nose, and then, in the eventlet tree, do: $ nosetests That's it! Its output is the same as unittest's output. It tends to emit a lot of tracebacks from various poorly-behaving tests, but they still (generally) pass.