Hi Eric,

Your patch seems go to me, even if I think the root cause of your problem
is fixed by:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=33186#26

I think that both could be applied to core-updates.

Thanks,

Mathieu

Le mar. 6 nov. 2018 11:27, Eric Bavier <ericbavier@centurylink.net> a
écrit :

> Hello Guix,
>
> I noticed building 'python-minimal' that its tests seemed to have poor
> memory performance, i.e. using *a lot* of RAM.  I thought maybe
> dropping --cores=... would help, but it did not; the tests use all
> available cores by default.  The attached patch fixes this issue,
> though, the package still uses all cores while building some extension
> libraries.
>
> I suppose this patch would go to core-updates?
>
> Cheers,
> `~Eric
>