GNU bug report logs - #51787
GC takes more than 9 hours on berlin

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>

Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 11:50:02 UTC

Severity: important

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

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From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 51787 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51787: GC takes more than 9 hours on berlin
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2021 10:42:30 +0100

Hey,

> Yeah I don’t know what happened to the GC process but it disappeared
> earlier today.  Then I started things like this:
>
>   unshare -m sh -c 'mount --bind -o remount,rw /gnu/store; rm -rf --one-file-system /gnu/store/trash/[abc]*'
>
> which is equally slow (perhaps slightly slower: it seems to do more
> syscalls per file to remove than the guix-daemon code).
>
> Anyway, I’ll let it run hoping it’ll be done by the next GC.

OK, thanks. Looks it just finished removing the trash directory
content. I started a GC process from my session to monitor it closely.

Mathieu
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