Marco van Hulten <ma...@hulten.org> writes: > Hello— > > I have an oldish amd64 system with 2 GiB of memory, but it is fast > enough to use as a media center. Guix was last updated early this > year. Upgrading it now takes many days. It keeps on swapping (using > quite consistently 2 of 4 GiB of swap available). > > Do you think the swapping is the reason that it takes so long? > > Would it be a general strong advice to use more than 2 GiB, or is it > likely useful to give details like which program is compiling (as in a > proper bug report)? > > —Marco
If you wind up compiling things, it will likely fail on larger builds. For example, my old machine which has 2 GB of RAM fails when trying to compile IceCat. I suppose the only possible solution is to always use pre-built binaries, either by using substitutes or by building first on a machine with more memory, and then copying the results over via "guix copy" or "guix archive". -- Chris
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