Hi Chris & Danny, Christopher Baines <m...@cbaines.net> skribis:
> Danny Milosavljevic <dan...@scratchpost.org> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> guix pull takes over 8 GiB of memory to finish if there are no substitutes. >> >> My laptop only takes max 8 GiB of RAM. I've set up swap, but that kind of >> memory usage still seems ridiculous. > > Do you know if the derivations got built in parallel? So, does guix pull > --max-jobs=1 use the same amount of memory? Also, it would be great if you could identify which derivation build requires that much memory, if this was happening sequentially. (I suspect “guix-packages.drv” is the one that eats up the most memory.) I agree it’s ridiculous. That memory usage comes from Guile’s compiler. A couple of years ago, Andy managed to cut memory usage somewhat, but that’s not enough. Thanks, Ludo’.
