[bug#58357] [Patch staging ] doc add a recommended system in 'Hardware Considerations'

[Joshua Branson via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@gnu.org>]

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> writes:

> jbranso@dismail.de writes:
>> I can submit a patch in the guix manual to recommend hardware with at least 
>> 1 or 2GB.  Which is better? 1 or 2?
>
> Come to think of it, there recently was a commit about Guix System (not
> about but because of the Guix package manager):
>
> commit 98a8b48a69b8208475c9a1e40d09517f8643b8cb
> Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
> Date:   Thu Sep 1 14:45:45 2022 +0200
>
>     doc: Suggest more RAM for "Running Guix in a VM".
>     
>     Fixes <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/57474>.
>     Reported by Michael F. Lamb <mike@orbital.rodeo>.
>     
>     Running 'guix pull' to target current revisions would lead to memory
>     exhaustion.  Bumping the memory size works around that.
>     
>     * doc/guix.texi (Running Guix in a VM): Change "-m 1024" to "-m 2048".
>
>
> However, to quote Ludo from that bug#57474:
>> It looks like the memory requirements to build the latest revisions of
>>  Guix have increased (and this is a bit ridiculous).
>
> Nevertheless the docs should mention 2GB, I guess.
>

Sounds good.  I'll create a patch soon.

>
> Regards,
> Florian