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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Minimum requirements for building everything on GuixSD?
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:22:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151231012219.GC23122@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mvsroct8.fsf@gnu.org>

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:18:27PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> swedebugia@riseup.net skribis:
> 
> > 1) 2 builds ran out of memory (qt 5.5.1 and webgtk)
> 
> I think WebKit typically requires 4G+ of RAM.

Also, some packages use huge amounts of disk space while building. For
example, I had to restart a libreoffice build after ~5 hours because it
didn't fit in my 3 GiB /tmp.

> 
> > 2) diskspace consumption is larger than I expected
> > 3) It takes weeks to complete it seems (after 8 days so far <50% done)
> >
> > *I have P4 2 core 3,2GHz, 1GB ram, 1GB swap and 40GB partition
> >
> > I heard from fps (after partitioning) that his x86_64 builds size
> > about 70GB in total.
> 
> Sounds like a good estimate (I don’t have any better figure actually
> ;-)).
> 
> Ludo’.
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2015-12-31  1:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-30 18:22 Minimum requirements for building everything on GuixSD? swedebugia
2015-12-30 21:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-31  1:22   ` Leo Famulari [this message]

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