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From: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
To: dannym@scratchpost.org
Cc: 38167@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38167: guix pull takes over 8 GiB of memory to finish if there are no substitutes
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 07:37:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eeyec18l.fsf@cbaines.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191111080635.14f7b39a@scratchpost.org>

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Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> guix pull takes over 8 GiB of memory to finish if there are no substitutes.
>
> My laptop only takes max 8 GiB of RAM.  I've set up swap, but that kind of
> memory usage still seems ridiculous.

Do you know if the derivations got built in parallel? So, does guix pull
--max-jobs=1 use the same amount of memory?

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-11  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-11  7:06 bug#38167: guix pull takes over 8 GiB of memory to finish if there are no substitutes Danny Milosavljevic
2019-11-11  7:37 ` Christopher Baines [this message]
2019-11-11 20:42   ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-12-26 19:45     ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-12-26 19:48       ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-12-27 18:11         ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-12-28 11:01           ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-12-28 14:52             ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-12-28 17:55               ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-12-29 22:41                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-12-31 15:44                   ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-12-31 18:18                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-01-01 12:51                       ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-10-09  2:11                         ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-12-27 18:08       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-12-28 10:56         ` Danny Milosavljevic

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