On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 07:49:32PM +0100, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > On Sun, 7 May 2017 14:25:43 -0400 > Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote: > > > On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 09:31:59AM +0100, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > > > I have slow internet :) > > > > > > It looks like ftp://tug.org has a FTP session timeout of 2 hours 11 > > > minutes, or something like that. > > > Over night I tried to build sbcl and failed. Note how download silently > > > stopped at ~80% [1]. > > > > > > Would be nice if guix had a mechanism to reconnect to FTP and continue > > > download after timeout. > > > > In the meantime, you can download the files with a resumable tool like > > wget, and then use `guix download file:///path/to/file` to work around > > this missing feature. Note that both the client *and* the server must > > support resuming downloads for this to work. > > The workaround worked. > > I've noticed it took guix-daemon 2GB of RAM to process this file locally. > Does guix keep all the file in RAM until download finishes?
I haven't looked, but that's how I'd expect it be coded. The OS can handle paging things in and out as needed, right?
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