Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org> writes:

> Hello—
>
> I have an oldish amd64 system with 2 GiB of memory, but it is fast
> enough to use as a media center.  Guix was last updated early this
> year.  Upgrading it now takes many days.  It keeps on swapping (using
> quite consistently 2 of 4 GiB of swap available).
>
> Do you think the swapping is the reason that it takes so long?
>
> Would it be a general strong advice to use more than 2 GiB, or is it
> likely useful to give details like which program is compiling (as in a
> proper bug report)?

Ideally you should not have to compile anything.  Have you authorized
the ci.guix.gnu.org signing key?