On Sun Mar 8, 2026 at 5:58 PM CET, Pratik Farkase wrote:
> Hi Mathieu,
>
> Thanks for testing!
>
> Yes, Go ptest requires significant RAM due to on-the-fly compilation during 
> testing.
> On my setup (qemux86-64 with 4GB RAM), tests complete successfully in ~45 
> minutes.
>
> The minimum RAM requirement appears to be ~2GB. With less RAM, the OOM killer
> terminates compile processes as you've seen.
>
> Options:
> 1. Increase QB_MEM for go-ptest in the recipe
>
> This is similar to other resource-intensive ptests like gcc or llvm.
>
> What would be the preferred approach for OpenEmbedded-Core?
>
> Thanks,
> Pratik
>

Hi Pratik,

I believe increasing QB_MEM is the way to go, but some reviewers might
have a different opinion.

Thanks,
Mathieu

-- 
Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

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