bug#28111: qemu testsuite fails

[Mathieu Lirzin]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> My previous snippet didn't include the actual error
>>
>> TEST: tests/test-hmp... (pid=27743)
>>   /arm/hmp/integratorcp:                                               OK
>>   /arm/hmp/nuri:                                                       
>> qemu-system-arm: cannot set up guest memory 'exynos4210.dram0': Cannot 
>> allocate memory
>> Broken pipe
>> FAIL
>> GTester: last random seed: R02S53adf2b44f1ff46cb48bd55ebce8854c
>> (pid=27751)
>>   /arm/hmp/mps2-an511:                                                 OK
>>   /arm/hmp/verdex:                                                     OK
>>   /arm/hmp/ast2500-evb:                                                OK
>>   /arm/hmp/smdkc210:                                                   
>> qemu-system-arm: cannot set up guest memory 'exynos4210.dram0': Cannot 
>> allocate memory
>> Broken pipe
>> FAIL
>>
>> I have tried to build QEMU again with the same guix version and succeed.
>> So Like previously reported this is underterministic.
>
> Could the initial error be the result of insufficient memory?

Maybe.  I don't recall if I was doing something memory intensive while
compiling.  Given that I have 8Gb of RAM and that, QEMU test suite seems
quite greedy.

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