sorry, the host got destroyed.
you can see from the test box that it is killing other processes too: # grep "Out of memory" messages Jul 15 15:12:56 qe-testing-rhel7 kernel: Out of memory: Kill process 21308 (mongod) score 219 or sacrifice child Jul 15 23:37:48 qe-testing-rhel7 kernel: Out of memory: Kill process 4598 (ruby) score 196 or sacrifice child Jul 15 23:37:49 qe-testing-rhel7 kernel: Out of memory: Kill process 4601 (ruby-timer-thr) score 196 or sacrifice child Jul 16 01:23:58 qe-testing-rhel7 kernel: Out of memory: Kill process 2004 (mongod) score 156 or sacrifice child It just happens that Mongo is the largest consumer at the time but doesn't necessarily indicate any specific issue with Pulp, just that these tests are consuming more than the 20G of RAM available to the test VM.
Based on Comment 8, closing this out.