Bug#1059840: please bump --ram-size for qemu

[Michael Biebl]

Package: debci
Version: 3.9
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-systemd-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org, jak at debian.org, helmut at subdivi.de

Hi,

we are currently trying to get the systemd upstream autopkgtest suite pass
in Debian sid/trixie with qemu and I'm thrilled to see that qemu support
for debci is currently evaluated.

There is one failing test remaining, specifically TEST-13-NSPAWN [1],
which requires more then the default 1024M of ram size.
E.g. running it with --ram-size=2048 makes the tests pass successfully.

We thus would like to see the RAM limits be bumped globally to say 2048M
for debci or have a way how individual packages can set the qemu
--ram-size parameter.

The discussion on #debian-devel showed, that systemd is not the only
package currently affected by this ram limitation.
It was mentioned that apt also fails when run with virt-qemu.

Regards,
Michael


[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/30488