Minimum requirements for building everything on GuixSD?

Minimum requirements for building everything on GuixSD?

[swedebugia]

Hi

During my now ongoing compilation of ALL packages on an x86 machine* I 
ran into a couple of issues:

1) 2 builds ran out of memory (qt 5.5.1 and webgtk)
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.

cheers
swedebugia

Re: Minimum requirements for building everything on GuixSD?

[Ludovic Courtès]

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.

> 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’.

Re: Minimum requirements for building everything on GuixSD?

[Leo Famulari]

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’.
>