fix: bound golangci-lint memory to stop lint OOM kills (#27637)

## Summary

Reduce peak memory during linting so cold-cache runs do not exhaust
memory on high-core development hosts or leave CI runners with little
headroom.

## Problem

`golangci-lint` v1 sizes its default concurrency from available CPUs,
not the cgroup memory limit. On a 96-CPU development host capped at 32
GiB, a cold-cache full lint run peaked at about 33.9 GB and reached the
cgroup limit. The CI workflow also used bare `make -j`, which allows
every lint target to run concurrently.

## Fix

Make the supported `make lint/go` path cap `golangci-lint` at the lower
of detected CPUs and eight workers, preserving lower concurrency on
smaller hosts. Preserve an inherited `GOMEMLIMIT`, use a configurable 8
GiB fallback when it is unset, and bound CI's parallel lint targets to
the runner CPU count.

In the same high-core cold-cache reproduction, peak memory for the full
lint target fell to about 10.1 GB. Raw `golangci-lint run` invocations
remain unchanged.

A `golangci-lint` v2 migration remains separate because it does not size
concurrency from the memory limit and requires broader configuration
migration work.

> Mux prepared and updated this PR on Mike's behalf.
This commit is contained in:
Michael Suchacz
2026-08-03 19:49:22 +02:00
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@@ -368,7 +368,8 @@ jobs:
run: helm version --short
- name: make lint
run: make --output-sync=line -j lint
# Bound concurrent lint targets to keep peak memory below the runner limit.
run: make --output-sync=line -j"$(nproc)" lint
- name: Save golangci-lint cache
# Only the default branch is trusted to write the cache, so PR