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Subject: Re: guix-daemon hitting systemd TasksMax
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Joram Schrijver <i+guix-devel@joram.io> skribis:

> Heh, no I'm not. I have to do it with 4 cores + hyperthreading. My first
> `guix pull` did have to build many things though, spawning numerous
> threads in some cases. I eye-sampled the thread counts during one try
> and they were certainly in the hundreds.

Oh, then it could be that it=E2=80=99s a =E2=80=9Cmake -j8=E2=80=9D (assumi=
ng 2 hyperthreads per
core) for one of the packages that exceeded the limit.

What about this:


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diff --git a/etc/guix-daemon.service.in b/etc/guix-daemon.service.in
index 28ef000..c79f867 100644
--- a/etc/guix-daemon.service.in
+++ b/etc/guix-daemon.service.in
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ ExecStart=@bindir@/guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild
 RemainAfterExit=yes
 StandardOutput=syslog
 StandardError=syslog
+TasksMax=1024
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target

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(Is it the right syntax?)

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.

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