[PKG-Openstack-devel] Bug#860627: The issue looks like not enough RAM

[Thomas Goirand]

On 04/25/2017 05:56 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 25/04/17 at 16:23 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As much as I can tell, it looks like to me that there's random crashes
>> on i386 because of the lack of RAM. It looks like the test suite needs
>> more than i386 can offer. Indeed, removing the --parallel option when
>> running the tests seem to improve the situation. Though I'm not convince
>> that removing that option is the thing to do. Anyway, I don't see a real
>> user using a machine with 4GB as compute host these days. Even if
>> someone would, they could well use the pre-built package, or not attempt
>> to run tests when building.
>>
>> Therefore, I'll be lowering this bug severity to important, until I can
>> get a reply from upstream.
>>
>> Your thoughts?
> 
> Well the machine had 256 GB of RAM, but of course on i386 that's only
> 4 GB per process.
> 
> Lucas

Yes, and OpenStack's gating is made with 8GB VMs.

Anyway, I still stand by the fact that i386 has very little importance
for something like OpenStack. I very much would prefer to invest time on
ppcel64 and arm64.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)