I should have mentioned that I'm on a foreign distro (Fedora). Which if I correctly understand how things work means I'm not using the Shepherd at all. Is the patch you linked relevant anyway?
Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > Hi, > > "Brennan Vincent" <bren...@umanwizard.com> skribis: > >> See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-04/msg00608.html >> for historical context. >> >> I have to bump this value locally in order to build openjdk@16:jdk >> because the build requires more than 10000 PIDs. >> >> Perusing the output of ps suggests that the build process is leaking a >> huge number of unreaped bash processes. The number keeps growing >> monotonically until the build is finished. > > This may well be related to an old bug, fixed in ‘core-updates’: > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/30948 > > Plan is to merge it in the coming days! > > Ludo’.
