Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> skribis: > On 2021-05-02, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> On 2021-05-02, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
[...] >>> Guile 3.0’s compiler with ‘-O1’ (which is what we use for package files) >>> uses much less memory than 2.2¹. The amount of memory may also be a >>> function of the number of threads used (‘-j’). So it could be that the >>> build failed on a machine with less memory or more cores. >> >> The machine it failed on had 32 cores and 140GB of ram... but will >> experiment with reducing parallelism on that machine and see if that >> helps. > > I just realized that the Debian guix packages are built with parallelism > disabled for reproducible builds, so that seems unlikely to be the > issue... it might just be an issue with guile-2.2 on Debian... D’oh. Could you try reducing the number of libgc marker thread, in case that is what’s causing troubles? You can do that by setting the GC_MARKERS environment variables, as in GC_MARKERS=2. Thanks, Ludo’.
