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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: 40522@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40522: ‘guile3.0-guix’ sometimes fails to build on i686 (“Too many heap sections”)
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2020 17:33:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9m81xox.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200409152928.681fd892@scratchpost.org> (Danny Milosavljevic's message of "Thu, 9 Apr 2020 15:29:28 +0200")

Hi,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

> https://github.com/Macaulay2/M2/issues/500 says there it's the Boehm GC being
> configured for small memory by default.

Hmm, weird.  ‘core-updates’ is on libgc 8.x (instead of 7.x), so we’ll
have to check if the same happens.

> They say setting the environment variable GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE (to
> like "50G") helps.  Not sure why.
>
> Also, there's an environment variable GC_MAXIMUM_HEAP_SIZE.

Looks like an ugly workaround, at best.  :-)

Thanks for checking!

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-09 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-09 12:04 bug#40522: ‘guile3.0-guix’ sometimes fails to build on i686 (“Too many heap sections”) Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-09 13:29 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-04-09 15:33   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-10-11 14:39 ` Ludovic Courtès

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