Subject: Re: bug#40522: ‘guile3.0-guix’sometimes fails to build on i686 (“Too many heapsections”)

From: Danny Milosavljevic <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 15:29:28 +0200

https://github.com/Macaulay2/M2/issues/500 says there it's the Boehm GC being
configured for small memory by default.

They say setting the environment variable GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE (to
like "50G") helps.  Not sure why.

Also, there's an environment variable GC_MAXIMUM_HEAP_SIZE.