From: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <somebody@not-sent-or-endorsed-by.tobias.gr>
Cc: 34768@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34768: guix-daemon tmpfs out of space on parabola
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:20:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0E607D15-3AB6-410C-A609-AEB092844EF6@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8736o08494.fsf@nckx>
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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <somebody@not-sent-or-endorsed-by.tobias.gr> skrev: (6 mars 2019 15:31:13 CET)
>Hullo,
>
>swedebugia wrote:
>> I'm trying to build New Moon (unbranded palemoon browser) in
>> parabola.
>> The tmpfs i 2G which is way too little it seems.
>>
>> I read the man page of guix-daemon and the manual and could not
>> find a
>> way to point guix-daemon to another tmpdir than /tmp.
>
>Well, TMPDIR= should Just Work :-)
>
>You'll have to set it to the environment of guix-daemon (and
>restart the daemon) for it to have any effect. How that's done
>depends on your service manager/init system.
>
>I guess a ‘set-tmpdir’ RPC could be added to the protocol. I
>haven't thought through the security implications, and IMO it's
>just papering over the real bug, which is…
>
>> Is this a bug?
>
>Not sure what exactly you're referring to, but yes, I do think
>that using /tmp instead of /var/tmp (or any non-tmpfs) is a bug by
>modern(?) conventions. It's guaranteed to break eventually on
>almost every non-Guix System, and when it doesn't it's an abuse of
>RAM and swap space.
>
>Kind regards,
>
>T G-R
Hi 😃
Thanks for the details. I agree that it is a bug.
I solved it by masking tmp.mount in systemd according to the arch wiki and thus disabled tmpfs for the whole thing.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-06 14:04 bug#34768: guix-daemon tmpfs out of space on parabola swedebugia
2019-03-06 14:31 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-03-07 14:20 ` swedebugia [this message]
2019-03-10 17:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
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