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From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
To: 41709@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41709: installed-os test failing
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2020 19:01:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mu5hmopy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eequres9.fsf@gnu.org> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Thu, 04 Jun 2020 18:12:22 +0200")


> All in all, fixing all of this makes the closure size to drop below 1GiB
> which is already a good first step.
>
> I'll try to provide patches soon.

I also discovered that enabling CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS, the size of
linux-libre is reduced by 63%.

This makes the image way lighter.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
/gnu/store/6p01ki4iwdxp2bmlr2n27hfry3hp7yac-guix-1.1.0-6.da1b79f   477.4   278.3  29.5%
/gnu/store/158nawzghm4lwm7q7ah8zhh7624fw7zb-locale-2.31             91.9    91.9   9.7%
/gnu/store/la3bzdd032892xrm6sq5zz64rzjhp1yg-linux-libre-5.4.44      79.7    79.7   8.4%
...
total: 943.2 MiB
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Now, the big source of improvement could be Guix itself (278MiB without
dependencies).

I think we can go further!

Thanks,

Mathieu





  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-05 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-04 14:36 bug#41709: installed-os test failing Mathieu Othacehe
2020-06-04 16:12 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-06-05 17:01   ` Mathieu Othacehe [this message]
2020-07-30 19:02     ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-06-06 13:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-09 15:40   ` Mathieu Othacehe

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