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>

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From: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
To: dannym <at> scratchpost.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: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 07:37:30 +0000

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Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> 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?

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