Re: RFS: ball/1.5.0+git20220524.d85d2dd-2 [RC]

Étienne Mollier <[email protected]> Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:30:34 +0100

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Hi Yavor,

> Étienne Mollier wrote:
> > Thank you for tackling all those issues on the ball package, I
> > have reviewed your changes and I consider the package to be fit
> > for upload as-is.  I will proceed to a sponsored upload soon.
> 
> Thanks but another upload is needed because of my autopkgtest snafu
> (#1120691) that I should have really predicted.

No worries, part of my sponsoring work should probably have
covered less usual processor architectures, but that would have
multiplied the amount of tests I would have run more or less by
hand.  It's good that our CI caught the issue in the end; too
bad it required human intervention from Paul Gevers due to the
memory saturation condition; hopefully CI runners will guard
against excessive memory usage in a near future.  I think we can
thank him for his work on the CI infrastructure.

Back to your changes to ball, I reviewed your work and verified
that your reduced variant of autopkgtest had reasonable memory
consumption on ppc64el and s390x.  I had cruise memory usage of
about 10GiB of RAM, but I believe that: first most of it seemed
imputable to my virtualisation layer, second there was a peak at
about 15GiB which seems to be constrained to a short time period
at the beginning of the processing, but it seems not sufficient
anymore to strain CI runners.  I have also otherwise a lot of
activity on my machine, so something else might have been
interferring, and investigating with top didn't raise
outstanding memory usage from the ball binaries.  It is great
that the package is cross buildable, because this really sped up
my review in this particular situation.  I reviewed also your
other changes and have no objection to them.

ball 1.5.0+git20220524.d85d2dd-2 is therefore uploaded.

Have a nice day,  :)
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