Subject: bug#35243: ungoogled-chromium build stops and freezes the system

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 19:12:32 +0000

# free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           7864        1419        3597         162        2847        6082
Swap:          2168         261        1907

--cores - did not use this before. chromium is not necessary for me, just tried. I think, its memory consumption is the worst thing I know about linux software, worse than systemd multifunctional extra-total covering.

April 12, 2019 7:00 PM, "Christopher Baines" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> [email-masked] writes:
> 
>> My bug report is this https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/issues/730
>> 
>> During update with `guix pull && guix package -u` ungoogled-chromium build process stops on build
>> derivation on 84% three times in a row.
> 
> What does your system memory and swap look like at that point,
> ungoogled-chromium requires quite a lot of memory to build.
> 
> If this is indeed an issue, you might be able to reduce the peak memory
> requirement by reducing the number of cores used through --cores.