Dear, On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 at 05:42, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I also experience poor performance on profile generation when using Guix > on an older machine equipped with spinning disks. This kind of > operation appears to be IO hungry, and performs much faster on solid > state drives (SSDs). > > I've opened an issue for the poor performance on spinning drives here: > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/44053. I am the first who complains about slowness (see patches for "guix search" :-)). However, I am not able to reproduce even on an older machine equipped with spinning disks because it depends on the number of packages living in the profiles. Therefore, the trick is to split all the big profiles into smaller ones. See for reference: <https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Guix-Profiles-in-Practice.html#Guix-Profiles-in-Practice>. All the best, simon
