From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mathieu Othacehe Subject: Re: Image generation Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:31:12 +0200 Message-ID: <87eesdz0v3.fsf@gmail.com> References: <878sior7fw.fsf@gmail.com> <20200421191630.GB12011@jasmine.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45360) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRug7-0008Ag-N5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 05:31:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRufz-0007Il-Ml for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 05:31:23 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-x42c.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::42c]:37681) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRufz-0007Cv-89 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 05:31:15 -0400 Received: by mail-wr1-x42c.google.com with SMTP id k1so9956635wrx.4 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 02:31:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20200421191630.GB12011@jasmine.lan> (Leo Famulari's message of "Tue, 21 Apr 2020 15:16:30 -0400") 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-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org > Wow! Why did it take 2h30? Do you have KVM? Yes, I'm not sure why it's so long. It seems that "estimated-partition-size" takes a large proportion of this time, because if I run the same command with a fixed disk-image size it goes faster. Mathieu