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..73270d10676 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-ptest.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-ptest.bb
@@ -27,11 +27,15 @@ 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-cryptography = "-m 5100"
+QB_MEM:virtclass-mcextend-python3-numpy = "-m 4096"
 QB_MEM:virtclass-mcextend-tcl = "-m 5100"
 
 TEST_SUITES = "ping ssh parselogs ptest"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy/0001-lib-tests-test_io-skip-test_big_arrays.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy/0001-lib-tests-test_io-skip-test_big_arrays.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0732f6ef6ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy/0001-lib-tests-test_io-skip-test_big_arrays.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+From 9ab82e22a02a17754bcd45b6b4de6bfd16c6db51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Trevor Gamblin <tgamblin@baylibre.com>
+Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 09:10:34 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] lib/tests/test_io: skip test_big_arrays
+
+This test consistently fails with the following error in our ptest
+images:
+
+|OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device
+
+So skip this test.
+
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [embedded-specific]
+
+Signed-off-by: Trevor Gamblin <tgamblin@baylibre.com>
+---
+ numpy/lib/tests/test_io.py | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/numpy/lib/tests/test_io.py b/numpy/lib/tests/test_io.py
+index 742915e22e..97ae18d7f8 100644
+--- a/numpy/lib/tests/test_io.py
++++ b/numpy/lib/tests/test_io.py
+@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ def roundtrip(self, *args, **kwargs):
+                 self.arr_reloaded.fid.close()
+                 os.remove(self.arr_reloaded.fid.name)
+ 
++    @pytest.mark.skip(reason="Requires a large amount of space")
+     @pytest.mark.skipif(IS_PYPY, reason="Hangs on PyPy")
+     @pytest.mark.skipif(not IS_64BIT, reason="Needs 64bit platform")
+     @pytest.mark.slow
+-- 
+2.39.5
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy/run-ptest b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy/run-ptest
index 9a1c72aeb10..261916d0c12 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy/run-ptest
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy/run-ptest
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
-#!/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.
+TEMPROOT="/usr/lib/python3-numpy/ptest/tmp"
+export PYTEST_DEBUG_TEMPROOT="$TEMPROOT"
+mkdir -p "$TEMPROOT"
+pytest --automake /usr/lib/python3.*/site-packages/numpy
+rm -rf "$TEMPROOT"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy_2.2.5.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy_2.2.5.bb
index c6a37c0a85f..273e1665e96 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy_2.2.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-numpy_2.2.5.bb
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ SRCNAME = "numpy"
 SRC_URI = "${GITHUB_BASE_URI}/download/v${PV}/${SRCNAME}-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://0001-Don-t-search-usr-and-so-on-for-libraries-by-default-.patch \
            file://fix_reproducibility.patch \
+           file://0001-lib-tests-test_io-skip-test_big_arrays.patch \
            file://run-ptest \
            "
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "a9c0d994680cd991b1cb772e8b297340085466a6fe964bc9d4e80f5e2f43c291"
@@ -41,32 +42,37 @@ FILES:${PN}-staticdev += "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/numpy/_core/lib/*.a \
 "
 
 # install what is needed for numpy.test()
-RDEPENDS:${PN} = "python3-unittest \
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\
+                  python3-compression \
+                  python3-ctypes \
+                  python3-datetime \
                   python3-difflib \
-                  python3-pprint \
-                  python3-pickle \
-                  python3-shell \
                   python3-doctest \
-                  python3-datetime \
+                  python3-email \
+                  python3-json \
                   python3-misc \
                   python3-mmap \
+                  python3-multiprocessing \
                   python3-netclient \
                   python3-numbers \
-                  python3-pydoc \
+                  python3-pickle \
                   python3-pkgutil \
-                  python3-email \
-                  python3-compression \
-                  python3-ctypes \
+                  python3-pprint \
+                  python3-pydoc \
+                  python3-shell \
                   python3-threading \
-                  python3-multiprocessing \
-                  python3-json \
+                  python3-unittest \
 "
-RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "python3-pytest \
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "\
+                         gcc \
+                         ldd \
+                         meson \
                          python3-hypothesis \
-                         python3-sortedcontainers \
+                         python3-pytest \
                          python3-resource \
+                         python3-sortedcontainers \
                          python3-typing-extensions \
-                         ldd \
+                         python3-unittest-automake-output \
 "
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
