From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add ledger. Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 14:45:13 -0400 Message-ID: <20160516184513.GA19902@jasmine> References: <20160509033906.GC25977@jasmine> <8737prou9x.fsf@gnu.org> <20160509210103.GB15057@jasmine> <1463023686.3455318.605409553.05451A73@webmail.messagingengine.com> <878tzf1vxu.fsf@gmail.com> <1463070674.3638408.605951137.5C3DB897@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87posp7oqa.fsf@gmail.com> <20160514024937.GA15206@jasmine> <87lh39yjze.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20160516180651.GA10211@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59802) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b2NW9-00011b-RU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2016 14:45:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b2NW5-0001W8-KF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2016 14:45:25 -0400 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:48704) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b2NW4-0001Pg-Am for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2016 14:45:21 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160516180651.GA10211@jasmine> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Christopher Allan Webber Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Alex Kost On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 02:06:51PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 12:45:57PM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > > Leo Famulari writes: > > > My opinion is that 3 or 4 GB is not a very small amount of RAM for a > > > personal computer. > > > > > > I think that allowing users with "only" 4 GB RAM to build our ledger > > > package is worth it taking twice as long for the rest of us. > > > > > > Or, users with ≤ 4 GB RAM could make a private variant of ledger that > > > disables parallel building. We sometimes suggest that users with > > > esoteric requirements or restrictions do something like this, but I > > > don't think this is one of those cases. > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > I guess I'm of a different view... it was only very recently that I > > upgraded to a machine that had > 4GB ram. And not too long ago I had a > > machine with 2GB of ram for a long time. > > Don't we agree? I think we should not parellelize the tests, since 4 GB > RAM is too high to be a minimum requirement. I mean the entire build, not just the tests.