From: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 28198@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#28198] [PATCH 1/4] vm: Add disk-image-size to <virtual-machine>.
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 21:36:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170925213648.25ef5dd1@cbaines.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y3pzudh7.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:29:56 +0200
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
> Hi Chris,
Thanks for reviewing these patches Ludo, unfortunately its taken me
nearly a month to get around to replying.
Thankfully, I've made some progress in that time.
> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:
>
> > * gnu/system/vm.scm (<virtual-machine>): Add
> > disk-image-size.
> > (port-forwardings->qemu-options): Use disk-image-size from
> > <virtual-machine>.
>
> In which case is it useful? Perhaps if you want to create lots of
> data on the root file system in the MongoDB test?
>
> Currently <virtual-machine> builds a shared-store VM (like ‘guix
> system vm’) in which the root file system has a fixed size that’s
> usually good enough.
The best answer I have at the moment is that I think MongoDB creates a
rather large file, even if it has no data to store in it. I'll do some
more investigation to confirm this though.
> > --- a/gnu/system/vm.scm
> > +++ b/gnu/system/vm.scm
> > @@ -653,6 +653,8 @@ it is mostly useful when FULL-BOOT? is true."
> > (default #f))
> > (memory-size virtual-machine-memory-size ;integer (MiB)
> > (default 256))
> > + (disk-image-size virtual-machine-disk-image-size ;integer
> > (bytes)
> > + (default (* 70 (expt 2 20))))
>
> I think we can use 'guess here as the default value (and we should do
> the same in places where #:disk-image-size has an arbitrary default.)
I've been looking at this in the last few days. Making 'guess the
default value here does mean something, and I think it's a good idea.
As far as I can tell, for this specific test, these are the 3 functions
that are called on the way to using the actual size, and the defaults
they have:
system-qemu-image/shared-store-script default:
(* (if full-boot? 500 70)
(expt 2 20)))
system-qemu-image/shared-store default:
(* (if full-boot? 500 30)
(expt 2 20)))
qemu-image default:
'guess
From my tests, if the default in the <virtual-machine> is set to
'guess, then for the mongodb test the guess seems to be 0 MiB at the
moment, which doesn't work. I've started looking at setting a sensible
default in qemu-image, so that the root filesystem size isn't 0 MiB.
While testing with the system tests, I noticed that the ones I was
testing with didn't pass without my changes, so I've started looking in
to that now. So far, I've got one patch that helps [1], but I think
there are other issues.
1: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=28600
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-25 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-23 9:18 [bug#28198] [PATCH] Add MongoDB package and service Christopher Baines
2017-08-23 9:25 ` [bug#28198] [PATCH 1/4] vm: Add disk-image-size to <virtual-machine> Christopher Baines
2017-08-23 9:25 ` [bug#28198] [PATCH 2/4] gnu: Add mongodb Christopher Baines
2017-08-31 12:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-30 8:04 ` Christopher Baines
2017-08-23 9:25 ` [bug#28198] [PATCH 3/4] services: Add MongoDB Christopher Baines
2017-08-31 12:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-30 8:05 ` Christopher Baines
2017-08-23 9:25 ` [bug#28198] [PATCH 4/4] tests: databases: Add MongoDB test Christopher Baines
2017-08-31 12:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-30 8:09 ` Christopher Baines
2017-08-31 12:29 ` [bug#28198] [PATCH 1/4] vm: Add disk-image-size to <virtual-machine> Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-25 20:36 ` Christopher Baines [this message]
2017-09-26 7:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-29 6:48 ` [bug#28635] " Christopher Baines
2017-08-26 22:33 ` [bug#28198] [PATCH] Add MongoDB package and service Roel Janssen
2017-08-27 22:30 ` Christopher Baines
2017-09-30 7:59 ` [bug#28198] [PATCH 1/3] vm: Add disk-image-size to <virtual-machine> Christopher Baines
2017-09-30 7:59 ` [bug#28198] [PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add mongodb Christopher Baines
2017-10-04 14:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-30 7:59 ` [bug#28198] [PATCH 3/3] services: Add MongoDB Christopher Baines
2017-10-04 14:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-06 20:29 ` bug#28198: " Christopher Baines
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