Package: debci-worker Severity: normal Hi Antonio and Paul,
I tried running the autopkgtest for apt on debci using the qemu backend. It wasn't happy. Eventually, it noticed that fork() wasn't working as it was exhausting memory. I looked and noticed that autopkgtest-virt-qemu has a default --ram-size of 1GB. Quite evidently, apt needs more. I strongly suspect that apt is not our biggest autopkgtest user and that the 1GB default is posing problems elsewhere as well. Since choosing a good number here is hard and depends on the system used for running the tests, I think it would be best to allow administrator configuration. Unfortunately backends/qemu/test-package has no way to sneaking virtualisation arguments into the autopkgtest invocation. Effectively, the only way to do that now is changing some package (autopkgtest or debci). I'm happy to be part of the solution here, but I'd like to consult with you on how that solution should look like before implementing it. Quite obviously, this is a piece that contributes to the API of debci and probably its configuration. Let me know what you think Helmut
