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Subject: Re: guix pull: cannot allocate memory
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ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> skribis:

> Is this exactly what Guile is telling me, "get more RAM / SWAP whatever"?
>
> ng0@sharknado9001:~$ guix pull; guix package -i rxvt-unicode
>
> Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.O9FRJW
> From https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz...
>  =E2=80=A6.tar.gz                                   981KiB/s 00:14 | 13.0=
MiB transferred
> unpacking '/gnu/store/lqpb6cppk3h65q5y29dxrj060idqj60b-guix-latest.tar.gz=
'...
> substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.o=
rg'... substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.=
gnu.org'... 100.0%
> The following derivation will be built:
>    /gnu/store/pg93cl2f7pynqz3rxmvg77226y79lhhi-guix-latest.drv
> building path(s) `/gnu/store/5x386gcp93f3ms33s60d7q1ijmnllbml-guix-latest'
> copying and compiling to '/gnu/store/5x386gcp93f3ms33s60d7q1ijmnllbml-gui=
x-latest'...
> loading...	 24.5% of 587 filesrandom seed for tests: 1492717246
> loading...	 98.8% of 587 filesBacktrace:
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 19 [primitive-load-path "gnu/tests/install" ...]
> In ice-9/eval.scm:
>  453: 18 [eval # ()]
>  411: 17 [eval # #]
>  387: 16 [eval # #]
>  373: 15 [run-install # #]

[...]

> In ice-9/popen.scm:
>   64: 1 [open-pipe* "r" "git" "ls-files"]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 0 [open-process "r" "git" "ls-files"]
>
> ERROR: In procedure open-process:
> ERROR: In procedure open-process: Cannot allocate memory
> builder for `/gnu/store/pg93cl2f7pynqz3rxmvg77226y79lhhi-guix-latest.drv'=
 failed with exit code 1

I think it=E2=80=99s fork(2) returning ENOMEM.  Perhaps =E2=80=98dmesg=E2=
=80=99 would show more
details?  It could be that there were too many processes running or
something along these lines.

It=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Cinteresting=E2=80=9D to see that we try to spawn Git =
while evaluating the
top level of (gnu tests install), I had never thought about it.  Not
great.

Ludo=E2=80=99.