Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic <dan...@scratchpost.org> skribis:
> The failure mode here is very very bad. Guix will consume all available > memory and then start on the swap, at which point the computer will > become unresponsive to any input and the user can't save any open > documents and has to kill the power to the computer. I agree that the failure mode is terrible. It’s very likely a cycle in the package graph, given the symptoms you describe. So ‘guix build OFFENDING-PACKAGE’ would probably give you the same result. Chris Baines proposed a patch a while back to detect and report cycles, but we never got around to polishing and integrating it. That would probably help a lot in these cases. We can open a new bug for that (if there’s not already one), but I think it should be framed in terms of cycle detection in the package graph and error reporting. Thanks, Ludo’.
