From: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
To: Caleb Ristvedt <caleb.ristvedt@cune.org>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix gc takes long in "deleting unused links ..."
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 11:38:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1ii8oh6.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87womjcfoi.fsf@cune.org>
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Hi Caleb,
thank you very much for the technocal details of the garbage collection
process!
Caleb Ristvedt <caleb.ristvedt@cune.org> writes:
> Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> writes:
>
>> Why does that take soo long?
>
> Warning: technical overview follows.
>
> It takes so long because after the garbage collection pass it then does
> a *full* pass over the /gnu/store/.links directory. Which is huge.
[...]
>> Or better: Is it save here to just hit CTRL-C (and let the daemon work
>> in background, or whatever)?
>
> I expect that CTRL-C at that point would cause the guix process to
> terminate, closing its connection to the daemon. I don't believe the
> daemon uses asynchronous I/O
[...]
IMHO both this questions/anwsers should start a brand new "Guix FAQ"
texinfo document :-)
I'll try to bootstrap one if I can
Thanks!
Giovanni
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Giovanni Biscuolo
Xelera IT Infrastructures
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-02 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-01 5:53 guix gc takes long in "deleting unused links ..." Björn Höfling
2019-02-01 22:22 ` Caleb Ristvedt
2019-02-02 6:25 ` Björn Höfling
2019-02-02 10:38 ` Giovanni Biscuolo [this message]
2019-02-04 21:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-02-06 21:32 ` Caleb Ristvedt
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