[pkg-go] Bug#852959: Bug#852959: prometheus FTBFS on armhf: github.com/prometheus/prometheus/storage/local fails

[Martín Ferrari]

On 28/01/17 16:24, Martín Ferrari wrote:
>> and the machines where prometheus failed have 4 GB RAM.
>
> abel too...

Now it fails on abel too.. I guess it was always too close to the limit,
and anything else running killed it.

>> "2680815616 in use", that is 2.6 GB.
>>
>> You have only 3 GB address space in userspace,
>> and I'd guess that is the limit you hit.
>
> possibly.
>
>> Is this test expected to use huge amounts of memory?
>
> I will re-run the tests with /usr/bin/time on abel and see how much
> memory do they take.

Time says the maximum resident size was 2184076 KB, it is a bit less on
amd64 (with tests passing).


Now I don't know what to do.. If I upload a fix (disabling the test), it
will be too late for Stretch.

-- 
Martín Ferrari (Tincho)