Re: [v2 1/1] doc: Show how to boot result of 'vm-image'.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:08:09AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

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>> “Defaults to 128@tie{}MiB, which may be insufficient for some
>> operations.”  (It’s not the daemon specifically, it’s mostly if you want
>> to run X + Xfce, for instance.  The former ‘guix substitute’ used to
>> take quite a lot of memory, but I think that’s no longer the case since
>> we switched to HTTP pipelining.)
>
> I hit this limit while using the "bare-bones" configuration template.
> The system would boot with 128 MiB of RAM but any operations using the
> daemon would fail.

Oh OK.  Well the thing is still using too much memory then (I suspect
it’s ‘guix substitute’ that’s at fault, not the C++ part of the daemon.)

> Also, I looked into how QEMU interprets "megabyte" et al. From the QEMU
> source file "include/qemu-common.h":
> #define M_BYTE     (1ULL << 20)
>
> So, I replaced "megabyte" with "mebibyte" in this paragraph.

Perfect.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.