Without this too many connections are fired at the MySQL and tasty OOMs occur
);
# lie that we already locked stuff - the tests below do not touch anything
-$ENV{DBICTEST_LOCK_HOLDER} = -1;
+# unless we are under travis, where the OOM killers reign and things are rough
+$ENV{DBICTEST_LOCK_HOLDER} = -1
+ unless DBICTest::RunMode->is_ci;
# Make sure oracle is tried last - some clients (e.g. 10.2) have symbol
# clashes with libssl, and will segfault everything coming after them