Subject: bug#38167: guix pull takes over 8 GiB of memory to finish if there are no substitutes

From: Christopher Baines <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 07:37:30 +0000

Danny Milosavljevic <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> guix pull takes over 8 GiB of memory to finish if there are no substitutes.
>
> My laptop only takes max 8 GiB of RAM.  I've set up swap, but that kind of
> memory usage still seems ridiculous.

Do you know if the derivations got built in parallel? So, does guix pull
--max-jobs=1 use the same amount of memory?