Subject: bug#67535: Does anyone use i686-linux? [was Re: bug#67535: ci.guix.gnu.org 'Cannot allocate memory' while building for i686-linux]

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 16:03:57 +0200

Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]> skribis:

> On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 02:51:49PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> For a long time we've not been able to build linux-libre on i686-linux
>> because the source unpacking process runs out of memory.
>
> I believe if we limit the unpacking process to not more than 8 cores we
> can avoid that problem.

Also, this is very much a defect of xz; on ‘core-updates’,
‘patch-and-repack’ uses zstd, which is much less memory-hungry and more
predictable.

Ludo’.