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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: 63852@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Lars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net>
Subject: bug#63852: ‘guix-package-cache.drv’ eats all your memory with ‘guix-cran’
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2023 23:58:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pm69h8r9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ttvlhnps.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Mon, 05 Jun 2023 18:34:55 +0200")

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> skribis:
>>
>>> It goes OK until building /gnu/store/6rfaqfq693vda59a55asc4wjjg52ilns-guix-package-cache.drv, which
>>> consumes memory until it gets OOM-killed.
>>
>> The culprit is easily found (here on just the 22K packages of ‘guix’, so
>> less than half of what you get with ‘guix-cran’):
>
> (Beware of “easily” when the guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about.)
>
> Turns out the problem is more pedestrian: ‘r-future-tests’ depends on
> itself.

Here’s a patch to prevent that from happening again:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/63917

(We also need to fix the importer.)

Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-05 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-02 16:22 bug#63852: ‘guix-package-cache.drv’ eats all your memory with ‘guix-cran’ Ludovic Courtès
2023-06-03 14:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-06-05 16:34   ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-06-05 21:58     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2023-06-15 13:13     ` Ludovic Courtès

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