bug#47717: guix becomes unresponsive while building the 'vigra' package

2021-04-14 Thread bo0od
> The ideal situation is that substitutes for these packages are > available, and you don't have to build them. Does that mean almost every user who gonna use guix system which will eventually fall into the same issue you gonna tell oh sorry default doesnt help do 123? we need solutions for the

bug#47717: guix becomes unresponsive while building the 'vigra' package

2021-04-14 Thread bo0od
> It might help to pass --cores=2 (or perhaps even --cores=1) to > guix-daemon, which should hopefully be honored by the build systems of > most of our packages, but probably not all (bug reports welcome). Thanks for the suggestion, But you know this is gonna be mouse and cat issue if its not fi

bug#47717: guix becomes unresponsive while building the 'vigra' package

2021-04-14 Thread Mark H Weaver
bo0od writes: > > What kind of computer are you using? Are you using swap? > > 4GB DDR3 rams, i7 4th generation , 20GB for Guix about 9GB swap For the record: I don't use binary substitutes at all, and I build my GNOME system plus IceCat locally, using Guix, on a modest Thinkpad X200 with 4GB o

bug#47717: guix becomes unresponsive while building the 'vigra' package

2021-04-13 Thread bo0od
> What kind of computer are you using? Are you using swap? 4GB DDR3 rams, i7 4th generation , 20GB for Guix about 9GB swap If this is not enough to install simple common used packages like libreoffice or onionshare..etc then this is big issue if guix considered to be targeting average users.

bug#47717: guix becomes unresponsive while building the 'vigra' package

2021-04-13 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 11:03:50AM +, bo0od wrote: > 4GB DDR3 rams, i7 4th generation , 20GB for Guix about 9GB swap > > If this is not enough to install simple common used packages like > libreoffice or onionshare..etc then this is big issue if guix considered to > be targeting average users.

bug#47717: guix becomes unresponsive while building the 'vigra' package

2021-04-12 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 05:39:11AM +, bo0od wrote: > I have used "guix pull" then "guix upgrade" one of the packages couldnt be > built but thats not the real issue, The real issue it caused guix to freeze > for like not less than 2+ hours and i couldnt do anything with the distro > until guix