tests: fix test failure due to os.freemem() behaviour change in node v18 #2530
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Recent node v18 nightly builds changed the behaviour of os.freemem()
on Linux to report "MemAvailable" from /proc/meminfo rather than
"MemFree". This broke our tests.
The nightly "edge" tests started failing ~6-7 days ago with:
The breakage started in node nightly build "v18.0.0-nightly20220107b6b6510187".
The culprit node change was nodejs/node#41398, which upgrades libuv, which brought in a change to
os.freemem()
on Linux: libuv/libuv#3351This broke an assumption in our tests.