From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Troubles with install image Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:18:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87r41mml3g.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wqbf4cao.fsf@izanagi.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54841) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X79Bv-0000JM-P2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:19:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X79Bm-0006Sv-JF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:19:11 -0400 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:56057) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X79Bm-0006Sj-BV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:19:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87wqbf4cao.fsf@izanagi.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (David Thompson's message of "Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:54:07 -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.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: David Thompson Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org David Thompson skribis: > Tonight I was almost able to get guix installed on a Thinkpad X60S. The > USB image booted and my OS configuration was valid, but the installation > failed. Due to hydra.gnu.org being unresponsive, Guix tried to compile > Guix 0.6 and ran out of memory while doing so (no swap space). Argh. :-/ 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. (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...) > Since hydra seems to always be under a lot of stress, I wonder if I > should set up another machine of mine to serve substitutes or even just > offload builds so that my installation can complete. Is this relatively > easy to set up? You could first retry right now as hydra.gnu.org seems to be reasonably responsive. ;-) To set up offloading, you must first have =E2=80=98lsh=E2=80=99 installed i= n the image, which is not the case by default. All this is doable, but that=E2=80=99s tedious. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.