diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
index f3fdededf66..2a27c0c5d41 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ PTESTS_SLOW = "\
     python3-cffi \
     python3-click \
     python3-cryptography \
+    python3-numpy \
     python3-xmltodict \
     strace \
     tar \
@@ -155,5 +156,4 @@ PTESTS_PROBLEMS = "\
     mdadm \
     numactl \
     python3-license-expression \
-    python3-numpy \
 "
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-ptest.bb b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-ptest.bb
index a0ff8d9528e..e703e852123 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-ptest.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-ptest.bb
@@ -27,10 +27,14 @@ IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE:virtclass-mcextend-lttng-tools = "1524288"
 # tar-ptest in particular needs more space
 IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE:virtclass-mcextend-tar = "1524288"
 
+# python3-numpy-ptest requires a lot of extra space
+IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE:virtclass-mcextend-python3-numpy = "3048576"
+
 # ptests need more memory than standard to avoid the OOM killer
 QB_MEM = "-m 1024"
 QB_MEM:virtclass-mcextend-lttng-tools = "-m 4096"
 QB_MEM:virtclass-mcextend-python3 = "-m 2048"
+QB_MEM:virtclass-mcextend-python3-numpy = "-m 4096"
 QB_MEM:virtclass-mcextend-python3-cryptography = "-m 5100"
 QB_MEM:virtclass-mcextend-tcl = "-m 5100"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy/run-ptest b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy/run-ptest
index 9a1c72aeb10..47a647a8ea2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy/run-ptest
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy/run-ptest
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-
-import numpy
-numpy.test(label='full', verbose=2)
+#!/bin/sh
 
+# By default, numpy will use /tmp as the root path for temporary files used
+# during tests, but if this is a tmpfs it may fill up quickly and cause many of
+# the tests to report "no space left on device" errors. Create a custom
+# directory for these and point pytest at it so we can take advantage of the
+# storage provided in the rootfs.
+export PYTEST_DEBUG_TEMPROOT="/usr/lib/python3-numpy/ptest/tmp"
+mkdir -p /usr/lib/python3-numpy/ptest/tmp
+python3 -c "import numpy; numpy.test(label='full', verbose=2)"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy_2.2.5.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy_2.2.5.bb
index c6a37c0a85f..b29c7c5b79d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy_2.2.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy_2.2.5.bb
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ SRCNAME = "numpy"
 SRC_URI = "${GITHUB_BASE_URI}/download/v${PV}/${SRCNAME}-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://0001-Don-t-search-usr-and-so-on-for-libraries-by-default-.patch \
            file://fix_reproducibility.patch \
+           file://0001-lib-tests-test_io-skip-test_big_arrays.patch \
            file://run-ptest \
            "
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "a9c0d994680cd991b1cb772e8b297340085466a6fe964bc9d4e80f5e2f43c291"
@@ -67,6 +68,8 @@ RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "python3-pytest \
                          python3-resource \
                          python3-typing-extensions \
                          ldd \
+                         meson \
+                         gcc \
 "
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"