Hi, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net> skribis:
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I'm happy to read you could successfully make it work! It's strange >> that you had that issue though! > > By now I have a system that starts all services without failure. I got > there by increasing the timeout to 30 s everywhere (compared to the > default value of 5). Perhaps 30 is more than necessary, I didn't try > intermediate values. So it looks like Guix in Docker is a bit slow to > boot, at least on the Mac. > > A more fundamental question is whether I will be able to do useful work > with this setup. It is well known that host file access from Docker on > macOS is slow, but I didn't realize how slow it is until I compiled Guix > in... four hours. On the same machine booted to Linux, it's about 40 > minutes. Ouch. Is this a fact of life or are there special settings that could make it less slow? Five seconds to spawn a process is already relatively long; we could increase it a little, but the slowness here is a concern. Thanks for sharing your experience! Ludo’.
