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’.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-31 1:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ 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]
2016-01-06 19:52 ` Error log analys from building ~2851 packages swedebugia
2016-01-07 8:53 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-01-07 14:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-08 17:18 ` swedebugia
2016-01-08 18:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
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