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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#27284: Memory leak in 'guix pull' or 'make' in guix source
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 17:00:42 -0400
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:

> taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kammer") skribi=
s:
>
>> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:
>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> There=E2=80=99s also the option of not compiling (gnu packages *) and i=
nstead
>>> evaluating them, but currently this is too costly in terms of memory
>>> and CPU.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> Can't we leave this to auto-compilation during normal use of guix?
>
> We=E2=80=99d have the same problem, only at a different point in time (it=
 might
> even be worse because auto-compilation would use -O2 instead of -O0.)

I've experimented a bit with --no-auto-compile (or lack of) and also
realized that it doesn't bring much to the table. Evaluating (rather
than auto-compiling) the modules is much faster and we need to properly
compile those anyway if we are to properly ship a guix binary
substitute.

Maxim