Monday 21 August 2023

Re: +1 maintenance report (14/Aug - 18/Aug)

On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 10:16:31AM +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote:
> + golang-github-protonmail-go-crypto
> The error message says "out of memory". I can reproduce this on a VM with
> 500M memory.
> It's because the testdata in TestSymmetricDecryptionArgon2 uses a large
> memory exponent parameter.
> It's same as https://github.com/ProtonMail/go-crypto/pull/178 (But this
> bug is only for 32bit arch, and is fixed in this package).
> TestSymmetricDecryptionArgon2 is passed on 32bit arch, but only fails on
> arm64 and s390x. Maybe the autopkgtest VM for these two architectures
> has less memory? even less than armhf (I know it is lxd container
> instead VM, but not sure about the memory configurations).

> LP: #2032145

The armhf lxd containers do not have hard partitioning of memory
allocations, so *generally* tests on armhf will have more memory available
than on other architectures. But that memory is also shared across tests,
so "noisy neighbor" effect is more of a problem.

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