if globalIsDistErasure {
		n = 2048
	}

	// Avoid allocating more than half of the available memory
	if maxN := availableMemory() / (blockSizeV2 * 2); n > maxN {
		n = maxN
	}

	if globalIsCICD || strconv.IntSize == 32 {
		n = 256 // 256MiB for CI/CD environments is sufficient or on 32bit platforms.
	}

}

// fetches a random number between range min-max.
func getRandomRange(minN, maxN int, seed int64) int {
	// special value -1 means no explicit seeding.
	if seed == -1 {
		return rand.New(rand.NewSource(time.Now().UnixNano())).Intn(maxN-minN) + minN
	}
	return rand.New(rand.NewSource(seed)).Intn(maxN-minN) + minN
}

// Randomizes the order of bytes in the byte array