bug#35660: guix weather runaway memory consumption

2021-08-17 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
retitle 35660 Implement cycle detection with proper reporting thanks swedebugia writes: > On 2019-05-14 22:52, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hi Danny, >> Danny Milosavljevic skribis: >> >>> The failure mode here is very very bad. Guix will consume all available >>> memory and then start on the sw

bug#35660: guix weather runaway memory consumption

2019-05-15 Thread swedebugia
On 2019-05-14 22:52, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: The failure mode here is very very bad. Guix will consume all available memory and then start on the swap, at which point the computer will become unresponsive to any input and the user can't save any open doc

bug#35660: guix weather runaway memory consumption

2019-05-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > The failure mode here is very very bad. Guix will consume all available > memory and then start on the swap, at which point the computer will > become unresponsive to any input and the user can't save any open > documents and has to kill the power to the

bug#35660: guix weather runaway memory consumption

2019-05-13 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, On Mon, 13 May 2019 22:46:22 +0200 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I don’t think this is the place to debug personal package collections. > :-) I didn't even remember the personal package collection at first. This here is a bug in guix that happens to manifest with that personal package colle

bug#35660: guix weather runaway memory consumption

2019-05-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > With guix master a0dc97a517cbc4c82640e30cacb2a564d128bbe9 guix weather > consumes > 8 GB of memory on a machine with 8 GB of memory and 1 GB of swap, then is > killed > by Linux OOM killer. > > Reproducible every time. > > Reduced problem to GUIX_PACKAG