From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Bauer Subject: bug#35108: ungoogled-chromium fails to install Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 12:31:37 -0500 Message-ID: <20190516173137.GD2637@rubic.com> References: <87mul8ibcy.fsf@posteo.mx> <20190516134839.GB2637@rubic.com> <87ef4yo3j5.fsf@devup.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33060) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hRKMO-0000P0-Cs for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 16 May 2019 13:40:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hRKMM-0004La-Iy for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 16 May 2019 13:40:04 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:42778) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hRKMM-0004LW-Ei for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 16 May 2019 13:40:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hRKMM-00071Z-Ac for bug-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 16 May 2019 13:40:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ef4yo3j5.fsf@devup.no> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Marius Bakke Cc: 35108@debbugs.gnu.org On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 04:52:14PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: > The problem with Ungoogled-Chromium is that it (at some point) uses > 6-8GiB of memory *per core* during the build. > > It would be great to codify this constraint in the package definition, > but I can't think of an easy way short of parsing /proc/meminfo. > > For now we can disable parallel building, which will arguably provide > a better user experience than thrashing and crashing systems... > > Thoughts? Interesting. If I ran the following command, the installation might succeed? guix package -i ungoogled-chromium --cores=1 -Jeff