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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Removing/replacing “Guix in action” video from the home page?
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2020 23:42:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9f842uu.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4JD1z15e92ccv6WXcMS5IiNJnDwR6P3bkIwtPWLUPYDVCUHYDoekpifyj3GQtnEq1LCKftbL-FV1hp162A1mid2EmjLMbWlxQ05aE9vGyf0=@protonmail.com> (Luis Felipe's message of "Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:26:55 +0000")

Hello,

Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> writes:

> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Friday, October 16, 2020 10:36 AM, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 12:28, Ludovic Courtès ludo@gnu.org wrote:
>>
>> > > https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/watch/c0dfb36a-a84b-4363-8b1b-17aeadd4aaaf
>> >
>> > Thanks! I think 7 minutes is too long; IMO we should aim for ~1mn–1.5mn
>> > at most as is currently the case. Also full screen, large enough fonts,
>> > no “guix pull” warnings, ‘--max-jobs=1’ on the daemon side to reduce
>> > verbosity. Slick and to-the-point! :-)
>>
>> The video is really long mainly because each command takes literally
>> ages. Well the "XDG mine" step to be precise; maybe Joshua you have
>> something misconfigured.

> If the slowness at the end can be avoided by configuring something,
> I'd like to know, because that slowness is always the case in my
> experience. For example, installing the program Joshua mentioned
> earlier, wf-recorder, which is quite small, took ~7 minutes in my
> computer (Intel® Core™ i3-8100 CPU @ 3.60GHz × 4, 4 GiB RAM, 1 TB
> HDD).

I also experience poor performance on profile generation when using Guix
on an older machine equipped with spinning disks.  This kind of
operation appears to be IO hungry, and performs much faster on solid
state drives (SSDs).

I've opened an issue for the poor performance on spinning drives here:
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/44053.

Thanks,

Maxim


  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-18  3:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-12 12:59 Removing/replacing “Guix in action” video from the home page? Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-12 14:31 ` Luis Felipe
2020-10-13  1:17   ` Joshua Branson
2020-10-13 17:19     ` Bonface M. K.
2020-10-13 20:59       ` Joshua Branson
2020-10-14  0:58         ` Bonface M. K.
2020-10-13 20:39   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-14  0:14     ` Luis Felipe
2020-10-14 20:43       ` Joshua Branson
2020-10-16 10:27         ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-16 10:36           ` zimoun
2020-10-16 15:26             ` Luis Felipe
2020-10-18  3:42               ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2020-10-18 11:13                 ` zimoun
2020-10-18 20:55                   ` Joshua Branson
2020-10-21  9:49                     ` ‘xdg-mime-database’ profile hook is slow Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-21 10:23                       ` zimoun
2020-10-27 23:14                       ` Joshua Branson
2020-10-28 21:48                         ` Luis Felipe
2020-10-28 22:38                           ` zimoun
2020-10-29 12:35                             ` Luis Felipe
     [not found]                         ` <87sg9sm2qf.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-11-02 12:53                           ` bug#44053: " Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-02 14:04                             ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-03 23:32                             ` zimoun
2020-11-05 14:47                               ` Luis Felipe
2020-11-05 16:10                                 ` zimoun
2020-11-05 17:59                                   ` Luis Felipe
2020-11-06 12:55                                     ` zimoun
     [not found]                                 ` <87blga3l7e.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-11-06 13:57                                   ` Luis Felipe
2020-11-08 16:31                                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-06  9:12                               ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-16 20:00             ` Removing/replacing “Guix in action” video from the home page? jbranso
2020-10-16 21:04               ` Luis Felipe
2020-10-28  0:55                 ` Joshua Branson
2020-10-28 12:59                   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-10-28 21:46                   ` jbranso
2020-10-31 21:56                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-01  0:50                     ` jbranso
2020-11-03 22:30                       ` zimoun
2020-10-16 19:57           ` jbranso

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