Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 03:47:08PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: >> The signal 9 (killed) makes me think a C++ program killed. I checked >> wikipedia and it says the Banana Pi M3 has 2GB of RAM. Was there >> anything else running at the time? 'guix pull' can be resource >> intensive, especially on lower powered machines. > > I think it should be possible with 2GB of RAM, if you limit the number > of concurrent builds. > > For example, something like `guix pull --max-jobs=1`. > > And I think the memory requirements should decrease with the recently > released Guile 3.0.3: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2020-06/msg00008.html
For the record, I’ve successfully run the following command on my A20 OLinuXino with a bit less than 1 GiB of RAM: guix pull --commit=380c3e459b6ebf0077008886954ff881a0cc7924 It takes ages, but fortunately substitutes were available for this revision. Before substitutes were available, it went OOM (out of memory) as in your case while building guix-system.drv. ‘guix pull’ is still barely usable on these low-end devices, though with Guile 3.0.3 it’s better. Ludo’.
