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

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: 63852-done <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: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 15:13:37 +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.

With commit e4259d4e9e3251e4c4b45d1cce4008ac32b504c8, such cycles are
detected early on.

Closing this bug.

We should still improve the memory footprint of the assembler though.

Ludo’.

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