diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index f8aca3959..8edfc5c0b 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -180,7 +180,6 @@ t/autoload.t
 t/autoload_func.pdl
 t/bad.t
 t/basic.t
-t/bigmem.t
 t/bool.t
 t/clump.t
 t/compression.t
diff --git a/t/bigmem.t b/t/bigmem.t
deleted file mode 100644
index f1f014ddf..000000000
--- a/t/bigmem.t
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-use strict;
-use warnings;
-use Test::More;
-
-BEGIN {
-   if ($ENV{AUTOMATED_TESTING} or $ENV{CI}) {
-      plan skip_all => 'bigmem tests skipped to avoid OOM fails';
-   } else {
-      plan skip_all => 'bigmem tests skipped to avoid OOM fails';
-      # plan tests => 2;
-   }
-}
-
-use PDL;
-
-# Tests for PDL::Core
-#
-# NOTE: pdl and PDL->new can't really be tested since the corresponding
-#       perl data may be 10-100x bigger than the end pdl element sizes.
-#
-# A lot of these PDL::Core tests simply check that these routines don't
-# break for large pdls as a sanity check.  Ideally, more thorough tests
-# could be done but code inspection/review might be more efficient.
-#
-# nelem
-# dims
-# shape
-
-my $bigbyte = ones( byte, 5*1024*1024*1024+17 );
-ok( $bigbyte->shape->sclr == $bigbyte->nelem, "shape handles indx dims > 4GiB");
-
-$bigbyte = ones(byte, 2**30, 4);
-my $aaa = $bigbyte->slice("3:-10");
-my $bbb = $aaa->slice(":,3");
-ok( $bbb->sum == $bbb->nelem, "slices of slices of giant PDLs seem to work right");
-
-# ndims
-# getndims
-# dim
-# getdim
-# get_dataref
-# upd_data
-# copy
-# unwind
-# make_physical
-# dummy
-# clump
-# broadcast_define
-# broadcast
-# diagonal
-# broadcast[123I]
-# sever
-# info
-# mslice
-# inplace, is_inplace, set_inplace, new_or_inplace
-# new_from_specification
-# zeros
-# ones
-# reshape
-# squeeze
-# flat
-# convert
-# byte|short|ushort|long|indx|longlong|float|double
-# set, at, sclr
-# cat, dog
-# set_autopthread_targ, get_autopthread_targ, get_autopthread_actual, set_autopthread_size, get_autopthread_size
-
-done_testing();  # tests done