No, the _test_ failure is consistent. The build itself now always completes, which is much better that before.

Le 18 juin 2021 05:51:14 GMT-04:00, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> a écrit :
>Hi,
>
>Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:
>
>> Le Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:58:09 -0400,
>> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> a écrit :
>>
>>> Hi Ludo,
>>> 
>>> I tried your patch by creating a variant of the guix package. My
>>> first attempt was a failure because it's still using almost all my
>>> memory and I forgot to enable my swap. In the second attempt, the
>>> build phase succeeded, but the build failed during the test phase
>>> (test/inferior). I've started a new build hoping it's a
>>> non-deterministic failure.
>>
>> I'm afraid after testing 2 more times that the test failure is
>> happening consistently, at least of armhf.
>
>(The _build_ failure, right?)
>
>Have you been able to see how this affects max RSS?
>
>Does it go any further than without the patch?
>
>Thanks,
>Ludo’.