Package: src:snap-aligner Version: 1.0~beta.18+dfsg-1 Hello Andreas et al.
Building this package allocates 188 GB of memory. To see how this could be a problem, take a machine with a lot of memory, say, 64 GB of RAM, which btw is more than three times the amount required to build any other Debian package, and disable memory overcommiting by creating /etc/sysctl.d/10-no-overcommit.conf with this contents: vm.overcommit_ratio = 100 vm.overcommit_memory = 2 Then write "sysctl --system" to load those values. Then try to build this package in such machine, and it will fail. It is normally assumed that applications overcommit as a normal thing, but this package builds fine in a machine having as little as 1 GB of RAM, so the overcommit ratio is about 188:1. Maybe this package does actually require such high amount of memory to work, but as far as building is concerned, every other Debian package which I know (well, except gpgme which requires 230 GB, the only other anomaly I found) could be built with only 20 GB of RAM, so this package is really an outlier. Thanks.
