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From: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
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
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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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