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To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> How much RAM does the laptop have?  It=E2=80=99s problematic if we end up
> swapping when building Guix on modern hardware.  My laptop has 4 GiB of
> RAM and fortunately it never swaps.

1GB.  I added another 512MB and the build was almost successful.  The
nar.scm test file fails.  It's the only test failure. :(

> (But note that the message saying it=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Cunresponsive=E2=
=80=9D usually means that
> at least it=E2=80=99s not dead, just slow...)

Okay.  It's strange then, whatever version of guix the install image
wants must not be on hydra.

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