Hello! Eus <e...@member.fsf.org> skribis:
> If I may suggest, in Guix info that is displayed at console Alt+F2, a user > should be reminded to add a swap partition. > > I forgot to do that first time, and so my "guix system --fallback init > /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt" got killed by OOM killer after about 10 hours. > > Even if a user is not building from source, a swap partition should be handy > in case the RAM is limited and/or in case hibernating is later desired. As a consequence of the unavailability of binaries on our machines, you ended up building webkitgtk and probably other packages. Building webkitgtk requires a lot of resources, in particular more than 4G or RAM, so this can easily run out of memory. Again the goal is to avoid this situation altogether, so I don’t think we should ask users to systematically add a swap partition before they start ‘guix system init’. Thanks for your feedback, Ludo’.
