diffoscope timing out.

[Chris Lamb]

Holger Levsen wrote:

> https://jenkins.debian.net/job/reproducible_netbsd/1029/console
> contains this, which IMO should not happen and is an issue in
> diffoscope:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/diffoscope/main.py", line 767, 
> in main
>     sys.exit(run_diffoscope(parsed_args))
>              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[…]
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.11/subprocess.py", line 2128, in _communicate
>     data = os.read(key.fd, 32768)
>            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> MemoryError

Yes, diffoscope is running out of memory and this may indeed be a bug
in diffoscope. However, how much RAM is diffoscope allowed (or can)
use?


Best wishes,

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