Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes: >> I've attached a workaround that I've been using for the last 6 weeks on >> my MIPS-based Yeeloong running GuixSD, since it only has 1 GB of RAM and >> otherwise it would not be able to successfully build the 'guix' package. >> >> Note that I never use 'guix pull', so I'm not sure off-hand whether this >> solves the problem there, but it certainly greatly reduces the memory >> needed to run 'make' and thus to build the 'guix' package. > > thank you for this patch. I’m trying it on my i686 with 1GB of RAM now. > My own attempt to revert the commit to build all files in one process > resulted in a guix pull that would only go to 20.4% and then sit there > doing nothing. > > I’ll report back once I manage to run “guix pull --url=/path/to/guix” > with this patch.
20 files at once is still too much when running “guix pull” on my i686 netbook. I tried lowering this to 10 files and still ran out of memory (after 70 minutes of compiling). I’m now trying with 3 files at a time. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net
