gasnet CI Failures

[Ethan-DeBandi99]

This issue is related to the Chapel issue #20845.

Arkouda compilation for multi-locale systems appears to require enough memory to cause failures in the CI. The exact error is documented in the Chapel issue. It was recommended that if this becomes severe enough, we could remove gasnet from the CI until compilation is more memory efficient in Chapel. I am not a huge fan of this because it will leave a massive hole in our testing. Posting this as a question to get feedback from others.

[Ethan-DeBandi99]

After discussing with @hokiegeek2 and @pierce314159, we are going to remove the gasnet testing from the workflow at this time. A suggestion to utilize the Chapel C backend was brought up in the Chapel issue, but @ronawho indicated this was not trivial as the docker container being used does not support this. This leaves a hole in our testing and will require us to consistently check the nightly testing, but we cannot keep having CI failures due to memory exhaustion during compilation.

[ronawho]

This leaves a hole in our testing and will require us to consistently check the nightly testing

FWIW we're already checking nightly testing consistently as part of our normal triage so don't think this changes anything there.

Still though, I agree it's unfortunate to lose this as part of CI testing. Hopefully we can do something to reduce memory pressure for the next release and re-enable, but if you find yourselves really missing this testing before then please let me know and we can explore getting the C backend built for docker and separating the chapel and backend compiles to reduce peak memory pressure.