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)