Hi! Pierre Neidhardt <ambre...@gmail.com> skribis:
>> Perhaps you simply don't have enough garbage available for the collector >> to collect? If you ask for 5 GiB, your system has 3 GiB free, and there >> is only 1 GiB of garbage, the best the collector can do is collect all >> the garbage (1 GiB) and leave you with just 4 GiB of free space. > > Sorry for the sparse details, I forgot to mention that if I run `guix gc > -F8GB`, > then I get 5-6GB back, so it _can_ remove that much garbage indeed! ;) Note that in the presence of deduplication, the daemon overestimates how much it’s going to free. So usually it ends up freeing a bit less than what you asked for. As a workaround you can run “guix gc -F8G” a couple of times or run “guix gc -F9G”, something like that. :-) Ludo’.
