Hi Peter,

I applied your scarthgap patch (#238923) directly via git am on a clean origin/scarthgap checkout and ran the openssl ptests on QEMU (qemux86-64, default memory, no manual config changes).

lhash_test fails with an OOM kill:

Out of memory: Killed process 546 (lhash_test) total-vm:72960kB, anon-rss:65792kB

41 tests pass before this (02-test_list.t is the last to pass), then 02-test_lhash.t fails with exit code 137 (SIGKILL). Later in the run, the ptest-runner process itself also gets killed by the OOM killer, so the suite doesn't complete fully (TOTAL: 1 FAIL: 2). 

I also tested this independently on oe-core master-next (your original commit 9365ac47f994a7d6be92b8c011c51ecf48e8ef87) and on my own scarthgap backport same lhash_test OOM occurs in all three cases under default QEMU memory. When I manually bumped QEMU's memory to 1GB, lhash_test passes, so it's a memory-availability issue rather than a problem with the patch itself.

Is this a known/expected limitation with the default qemux86-64 ptest QEMU memory, or is there something I should configure differently when running these tests?

Thanks,
Sai Sneha