GNU bug report logs - #38167
guix pull takes over 8 GiB of memory to finish if there are no substitutes

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Package: guix;

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

Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 07:08:02 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: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 38167 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38167: guix pull takes over 8 GiB of memory to finish if there are no substitutes
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:44:50 +0100

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Hi Ludo,

On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 23:41:42 +0100
Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > It could be because my modules in GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH contain an import cycle
> > (I don't know whether it does, but I had such a cycle before).  
> 
> And that’s definitely a possibility!  Can you try unsetting
> GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH?

Sure, but that will not decide it conclusively.

It's pretty rare that guix pull has the problem above (once a week or so), so
it could also be that it will work because it got a non-problematic case the
same time (but not because of) I unset GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH.

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