* bug#50353: Excessive temproots size when running guix build
@ 2021-09-03 9:53 Christopher Baines
2021-09-06 21:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
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From: Christopher Baines @ 2021-09-03 9:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 50353
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I spotted a problem with data.guix.gnu.org trying to process this old
revision [1]
1: https://data.guix.gnu.org/revision/75dabac633bb9a33efbebf859f8aa4bb3b9582b2
The machine ran out of disk space, as a ~30GiB file had been created in
/var/guix/temproots.
I think I can reproduce the situation by running this command.
guix time-machine --commit=75dabac633bb9a33efbebf859f8aa4bb3b9582b2 -- build --system=armhf-linux guix
It's the build of the guix package that seems to be involved.
For some reason though, I can't reproduce this on my local machine, I
get a build failure for [2].
2: /gnu/store/cz4sr5whzf3qhp8c47bzlfzcxxwl485i-python2-2.7.15.drv
Any ideas? Is there a known issue (perhaps with grafts) for old
revisions of Guix which could lead to excessive temproots file sizes in
some situations?
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* bug#50353: Excessive temproots size when running guix build
2021-09-03 9:53 bug#50353: Excessive temproots size when running guix build Christopher Baines
@ 2021-09-06 21:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-09-07 9:45 ` Maxime Devos
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From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2021-09-06 21:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christopher Baines; +Cc: 50353
Hi,
Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:
> I spotted a problem with data.guix.gnu.org trying to process this old
> revision [1]
>
> 1: https://data.guix.gnu.org/revision/75dabac633bb9a33efbebf859f8aa4bb3b9582b2
>
> The machine ran out of disk space, as a ~30GiB file had been created in
> /var/guix/temproots.
Sounds fishy. Those files contain a nul-separated list of GC roots
(store file names). Thus, a file in there is proportional to the number
of ‘add-temp-root’ RPCs made by the client during the session.
A client with a long-running session (‘guix publish’, Coordinator, Data
Service, Cuirass, etc.) that regularly adds temp roots makes that file
grow endlessly.
HTH!
Ludo’.
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* bug#50353: Excessive temproots size when running guix build
2021-09-06 21:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
@ 2021-09-07 9:45 ` Maxime Devos
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Maxime Devos @ 2021-09-07 9:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ludovic Courtès, Christopher Baines; +Cc: 50353
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Ludovic Courtès schreef op ma 06-09-2021 om 23:18 [+0200]:
> Hi,
>
> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:
>
> > I spotted a problem with data.guix.gnu.org trying to process this old
> > revision [1]
> >
> > 1: https://data.guix.gnu.org/revision/75dabac633bb9a33efbebf859f8aa4bb3b9582b2
> >
> > The machine ran out of disk space, as a ~30GiB file had been created in
> > /var/guix/temproots.
>
> Sounds fishy. Those files contain a nul-separated list of GC roots
> (store file names). Thus, a file in there is proportional to the number
> of ‘add-temp-root’ RPCs made by the client during the session.
>
> A client with a long-running session (‘guix publish’, Coordinator, Data
> Service, Cuirass, etc.) that regularly adds temp roots makes that file
> grow endlessly.
FWIW, temp roots are added in ‘DerivationGoal::DerivationGoal’
when building things, and ‘DerivationGOal::haveDerivation’,
‘SubstitutionGoal::init’, ‘LocalStore::optimiseStore’
‘LocalStore::addToStoreFromDump’, ‘LocalStore::addTextToStore’,
‘LocalStore::createTempDirInStore’ and ‘LocalStore::importPath’.
I.e., temp roots are not only added from the add-temp-root RPC.
Greetings,
Maxime.
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