From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Sarah Morgensen <iskarian@mgsn.dev>
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>, 49439@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49439: grafts cause “guix environment” to get killed with OOM
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 18:28:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y29r3enb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86tuklr5g6.fsf@mgsn.dev> (Sarah Morgensen's message of "Thu, 22 Jul 2021 21:59:21 -0700")
Hi,
Sarah Morgensen <iskarian@mgsn.dev> skribis:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> With a recent version of Guix, “guix environment” will not
>> terminate on its own, keeps the CPU busy, and gets killed when the
>> system eventually runs out of memory.
>>
>> $ guix describe -f channels
>>
>> (list (channel
>> (name 'guix)
>> (url "/home/rekado/dev/gx/branches/master")
>> (commit
>> "685cfdec94e5e48c4ad28de53466a28dfc258edb")))
>>
>>
>> $ guix environment pigx-scrnaseq
>> [wait until it gets killed]
>
> I can reproduce this with pigx-scrnaseq as well a number of other
> packages (listed below).
>
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix describe -f channels
> (list (channel
> (name 'guix)
> (url "/home/sarah/guix")
> (commit
> "3217a04b0352c2dd13323257b369604eeabfccc3")))
>
> Does not complete within 5 minutes:
What hardware are you using?
Here’s what I observe (with everything already in store and on a hot
cache, with an i7 CPU):
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix describe
Generacio 188 Jul 25 2021 12:47:29 (nuna)
guix a92dfbc
repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
branch: master
commit: a92dfbce30777de6ca05031e275410cf9f56c84c
$ time GUIX_PROFILING=gc guix environment pigx-scrnaseq --search-paths --no-grafts >/dev/null
Garbage collection statistics:
heap size: 160.31 MiB
allocated: 1440.70 MiB
GC times: 39
time spent in GC: 4.51 seconds (46% of user time)
real 0m7.534s
user 0m9.747s
sys 0m0.167s
$ time GUIX_PROFILING=gc guix environment pigx-scrnaseq --search-paths >/dev/null
Garbage collection statistics:
heap size: 168.31 MiB
allocated: 2111.71 MiB
GC times: 53
time spent in GC: 6.92 seconds (45% of user time)
real 0m12.100s
user 0m15.517s
sys 0m0.198s
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Commit 78daf9e02e5bc51f91488d8237cab2050cc060cf optimizes
‘coalesce-duplicate-inputs’, which was quadratic in the number of inputs (!).
After that change, I get:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ time GUIX_PROFILING=gc ./pre-inst-env guix environment pigx-scrnaseq --search-paths --no-grafts >/dev/null
Garbage collection statistics:
heap size: 168.31 MiB
allocated: 716.58 MiB
GC times: 24
time spent in GC: 2.65 seconds (40% of user time)
real 0m5.720s
user 0m6.708s
sys 0m0.149s
$ time GUIX_PROFILING=gc ./pre-inst-env guix environment pigx-scrnaseq --search-paths >/dev/null
Garbage collection statistics:
heap size: 160.31 MiB
allocated: 1387.96 MiB
GC times: 42
time spent in GC: 5.87 seconds (43% of user time)
real 0m10.821s
user 0m13.513s
sys 0m0.198s
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Could you tell me if it improves the situation for you?
It’s not the end of the road, but it should be an improvement.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-27 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-06 14:38 bug#49439: grafts cause “guix environment” to get killed with OOM Ricardo Wurmus
2021-07-23 4:59 ` Sarah Morgensen
2021-07-27 14:52 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-07-27 16:28 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-07-27 23:35 ` Sarah Morgensen
2021-07-28 10:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-07-28 22:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-07-29 3:20 ` Sarah Morgensen
2021-08-09 21:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-08-10 15:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
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