GNU bug report logs - #35660
guix weather runaway memory consumption

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>

Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 20:48:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 35660 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35660: guix weather runaway memory consumption
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 22:46:22 +0200

Hi Danny,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> skribis:

> With guix master a0dc97a517cbc4c82640e30cacb2a564d128bbe9 guix weather consumes
> 8 GB of memory on a machine with 8 GB of memory and 1 GB of swap, then is killed
> by Linux OOM killer.
>
> Reproducible every time.
>
> Reduced problem to GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH being set.
>
> If I unset it, it works.

I don’t think this is the place to debug personal package collections.
:-)

I’d love to give a hand but I feel we’re already overwhelmed with bugs
related to things happening on ‘master’.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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