David Thompson <dthomps...@worcester.edu> skribis: > Tonight I was almost able to get guix installed on a Thinkpad X60S. The > USB image booted and my OS configuration was valid, but the installation > failed. Due to hydra.gnu.org being unresponsive, Guix tried to compile > Guix 0.6 and ran out of memory while doing so (no swap space).
Argh. :-/ How much RAM does the laptop have? It’s problematic if we end up swapping when building Guix on modern hardware. My laptop has 4 GiB of RAM and fortunately it never swaps. (But note that the message saying it’s “unresponsive” usually means that at least it’s not dead, just slow...) > Since hydra seems to always be under a lot of stress, I wonder if I > should set up another machine of mine to serve substitutes or even just > offload builds so that my installation can complete. Is this relatively > easy to set up? You could first retry right now as hydra.gnu.org seems to be reasonably responsive. ;-) To set up offloading, you must first have ‘lsh’ installed in the image, which is not the case by default. All this is doable, but that’s tedious. Thanks, Ludo’.
