Certain tests like testAP spawn two IWD process in separate namespaces. When --valrind is used this eats up quite a bit of RAM and causes the VM to run out of memory and start killing off processes. --- tools/test-runner | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/test-runner b/tools/test-runner index b890b3e7..dd4cbf82 100755 --- a/tools/test-runner +++ b/tools/test-runner @@ -1570,7 +1570,15 @@ class Main: else: smp = int(nproc / 2) - print("Using %d cores for VM" % smp) + # + # Increase RAM if valgrind is being used + # + if self.args.valgrind: + ram = 512 + else: + ram = 256 + + print("Using %d cores, %d RAM for VM" % (smp, ram)) # # This passes through most of the command line options to @@ -1593,7 +1601,7 @@ class Main: qemu_binary, '-machine', 'type=q35,accel=kvm:tcg', '-nodefaults', '-no-user-config', '-monitor', 'none', - '-display', 'none', '-m', '256M', '-nographic', '-vga', + '-display', 'none', '-m', '%dM' % ram, '-nographic', '-vga', 'none', '-no-acpi', '-no-hpet', '-no-reboot', '-fsdev', 'local,id=fsdev-root,path=/,readonly,security_model=none,multidevs=remap', -- 2.26.2