From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Bakke Subject: Re: upgrading systems with <= 2 GiB RAM Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 23:49:55 +0100 Message-ID: <878sp0pm24.fsf@devup.no> References: <20191031155420.78fab93a@gfi063209.klientdrift.uib.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44981) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iQJGU-0006DG-2c for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:50:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQJGT-000330-1O for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:50:01 -0400 Received: from wout4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([64.147.123.20]:41003) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQJGS-0002z7-J4 for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:50:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20191031155420.78fab93a@gfi063209.klientdrift.uib.no> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Marco van Hulten , help-guix@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Marco van Hulten writes: > Hello=E2=80=94 > > 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? --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEEu7At3yzq9qgNHeZDoqBt8qM6VPoFAl27ZRMACgkQoqBt8qM6 VPpwFAgAxo17cxgA1kYGM+nM1gAAyuvWZJ0cjHAPn+cmZsFf4BJA0AxJxQhPp9kB dpxoe7mmgcsY9AGIh5wxZeorXDi9BDgfxW3NYJ8GtbiAQkM7N2wvtJzkCBlpl/sh 0jz+GA58g1xi06MVTlEkgmOY1NI3WuH0dPmBos6ZGKTMMtcTWiQBDIDNm3udtCMT arDekrs/+REtn5gmkr0yWhMccQ1b44Yy9EVL2+KRGa3Y5FdDS7pU9uSsvy9Ki/bE OOYaJ4A9IOtbMNqzuKY+4T23Am802QmVGv/IGgHEkHugZINUA607xpmxrpETpClE mh2172YuIjnZa41WQoQpVM3SdohWZg== =Vu6P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--