bug#59717: ‘guix’ package fails to build on armhf-linux (OOM)

bug#59717: ‘guix’ package fails to build on armhf-linux (OOM)

[Ludovic Courtès]

As of 1bc9d5222f9053fd0ace7b92df0ef9548707cf41 (version-1.4.0), the
‘guix’ package fails to build on armhf-linux, running out of memory:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
[ 75%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/toolkits.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/tor.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/tv.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/uglifyjs.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/uml.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/unicode.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/unrtf.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/upnp.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/usb-modeswitch.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/uucp.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/valgrind.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/version-control.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/video.go
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes
GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL!
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes
GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL!
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes
GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL!
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes
GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL!
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes
GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL!
[…]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The build process goes on; it never stops but doesn’t make any progress.

I don’t know if it’s deterministic.

It builds fine on i686-linux.

Ludo’.

bug#59717: ‘guix’ package fails to build on armhf-linux (OOM)

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> [ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/uucp.go
> [ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/valgrind.go
> [ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/version-control.go
> [ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/video.go
> GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes
> GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes
> GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL!

Happens for me too, unless I do --cores=1.

(In fact my computer turned off for unrelated reasons before the build
finished, but it had gone past to at least xorg.scm.  But I think
--cores=1 made a difference.)

Regards,
Florian

bug#59717: ‘guix’ package fails to build on armhf-linux (OOM)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>> [ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/uucp.go
>> [ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/valgrind.go
>> [ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/version-control.go
>> [ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/video.go
>> GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes
>> GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes
>> GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL!
>
> Happens for me too, unless I do --cores=1.

Interesting.

I worked around it with commit 1aa7ee52c6c520c2dbbdb06f1381466e9fd96294
on ‘version-1.4.0’.

Next I’d like to do some heap profiling to address the problem at its
root; it qualifies as a memory leak.

Thanks,
Ludo’.