GNU bug report logs - #54651
Guix pull failing on ARM 32bit with "Please report the COMPLETE output above by email"

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo <at> cyberdimension.org>

Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:22:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo <at> cyberdimension.org>
Cc: 54651 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54651: Guix pull failing on ARM 32bit with "Please report the COMPLETE output above by email"
Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 20:27:18 +0200
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Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli schreef op ma 23-05-2022 om 19:30 [+0200]:
> And here I probably lack some knowledge but I was under the
> impression
> that swap was handled transparently by the kernel (through page
> tables,
> virtual memory, and so on), so applications should not notice the
> difference apart from the huge performance drop.
> 
> Though one issue could be that maybe for some reason the process
> wants
> to use more than 3GiB of memory and at least i686 processes are
> limited
> to 4GiB if you use an x86_64 kernel and about 3GiB if you use an i686
> kernel. So maybe it's somehow similar for armv7h?

That's what I was referring to.  Additionally, I've also seen ‘2GiB’
(as in: 2/2 split) mentioned somewhere, though I don't know if it
applies to arm and linux.
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