[Bug 1488879] Re: python-ruffus kills LXC worker on ppc64el

[Martin Pitt]

Setting "lxc.cgroup.memory.limit_in_bytes = 1800M" in
/usr/share/lxc/config/ubuntu.common.conf does the trick for not killing
host processes. I. e. leave enough room for two parallel testbeds plus
some for the host OS.

After that, adt-run still fails to properly kill the container and clean
up.

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Title:
  python-ruffus kills LXC worker on ppc64el

Status in Auto Package Testing:
  In Progress
Status in autopkgtest package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  python-ruffus' tests create some kind of python fork bomb in ppc64el's
  LXC worker, which triggers the OOM killer.

  We need to find a way for the spawned LXC container to be the first
  OOM victim, instead of killing the worker python process.

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