GNU bug report logs - #63852
‘guix-package-cache.drv’ eats all your memory with ‘guix-cran’

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>

Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 16:23:02 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 63852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: 63852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Lars-Dominik Braun <lars <at> 6xq.net>
Subject: Re: bug#63852: ‘guix-package-cache.drv’ eats all your memory with
 ‘guix-cran’
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2023 23:58:02 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr> skribis:
>>
>>> It goes OK until building /gnu/store/6rfaqfq693vda59a55asc4wjjg52ilns-guix-package-cache.drv, which
>>> consumes memory until it gets OOM-killed.
>>
>> The culprit is easily found (here on just the 22K packages of ‘guix’, so
>> less than half of what you get with ‘guix-cran’):
>
> (Beware of “easily” when the guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about.)
>
> Turns out the problem is more pedestrian: ‘r-future-tests’ depends on
> itself.

Here’s a patch to prevent that from happening again:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/63917

(We also need to fix the importer.)

Ludo’.
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