[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1120691: ball autopkgtest uses insane amount of memory (on ppc64el and s390x)

[Paul Gevers]

Source: ball
Version: 39.20+dfsg-2
Severity: important

Dear maintainer(s),

I looked at the results of the autopkgtest of your package because I was 
investigating memory issues on our ci.d.n infrastructure. I noticed that 
your package uses an insane amount of memory.

On our ppc64el worker, I saw it peaking at 70 GB and then I killed it. 
On our s390x worker I saw a memory use at 110 GB for nearly 3 hours at 
the time that the ball test ran there. Now there's an argument to make 
that the infra should protect itself against this kind of misbehavior, 
but currently it doesn't (we're working on that). I would appreciate it 
if you limit the test on memory usage.

Paul
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