From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Eus <eus@member.fsf.org>
Cc: 23876@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23876: [Guix Info][7.1.4] Should remind user to add a swap partition
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2016 00:05:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87shvrelvm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1017761467350840@web1j.yandex.ru> (eus@member.fsf.org's message of "Fri, 01 Jul 2016 12:27:20 +0700")
Hello!
Eus <eus@member.fsf.org> skribis:
> If I may suggest, in Guix info that is displayed at console Alt+F2, a user should be reminded to add a swap partition.
>
> I forgot to do that first time, and so my "guix system --fallback init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt" got killed by OOM killer after about 10 hours.
>
> Even if a user is not building from source, a swap partition should be handy in case the RAM is limited and/or in case hibernating is later desired.
As a consequence of the unavailability of binaries on our machines, you
ended up building webkitgtk and probably other packages. Building
webkitgtk requires a lot of resources, in particular more than 4G or
RAM, so this can easily run out of memory.
Again the goal is to avoid this situation altogether, so I don’t think
we should ask users to systematically add a swap partition before they
start ‘guix system init’.
Thanks for your feedback,
Ludo’.
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2016-07-01 5:27 bug#23876: [Guix Info][7.1.4] Should remind user to add a swap partition Eus
2016-07-02 22:05 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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