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’.