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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#40522: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=98guile3.0-guix=E2=80=99?= sometimes
 fails to build on i686 (=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CToo?= many heap
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Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2020 17:33:02 +0200
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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Hi,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

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

Hmm, weird.  =E2=80=98core-updates=E2=80=99 is on libgc 8.x (instead of 7.x=
), so we=E2=80=99ll
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=E2=80=99.