Re: [PATCH] gnu: gdk-pixbuf: Disable pixbuf-scale test.

2016-02-07 Thread Jookia
On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 09:06:20PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Jookia <166...@gmail.com> skribis: > > > On systems with little ram (2G in my case) the pixbuf-scale test will either > > freeze the system of cause excessive swapping without the test every > > completing. > > Out of curiosity,

Re: [PATCH] gnu: gdk-pixbuf: Disable pixbuf-scale test.

2016-02-07 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 12:15:37PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 03:56:24PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > > I would like another option besides disabling the test unconditionally. > > We already have several packages that can simply not be built on > > hardware like Jookia's,

Re: [PATCH] gnu: gdk-pixbuf: Disable pixbuf-scale test.

2016-02-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Jookia <166...@gmail.com> skribis: > On systems with little ram (2G in my case) the pixbuf-scale test will either > freeze the system of cause excessive swapping without the test every > completing. Out of curiosity, did you check how the test manages to achieve this level or memory greediness?

Re: [PATCH] gnu: gdk-pixbuf: Disable pixbuf-scale test.

2016-02-07 Thread Jookia
On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 12:15:37PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > I basically agree with your comment, which is also in line with our policy > of following upstream as closely as possible when building packages. > On the other hand, a simple unit test that requires 2GB of memory seems a bit > excessi

Re: [PATCH] gnu: gdk-pixbuf: Disable pixbuf-scale test.

2016-02-07 Thread Andreas Enge
On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 03:56:24PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > I would like another option besides disabling the test unconditionally. > We already have several packages that can simply not be built on > hardware like Jookia's, and although it's an unfortunate situation, I > don't think we should

Re: [PATCH] gnu: gdk-pixbuf: Disable pixbuf-scale test.

2016-02-06 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 08:04:39AM +1100, Jookia wrote: > On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 04:17:49PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 09:25:41PM +, Jookia wrote: > > > On systems with little ram (2G in my case) the pixbuf-scale test will > > > either > > > freeze the system of ca

Re: [PATCH] gnu: gdk-pixbuf: Disable pixbuf-scale test.

2016-02-06 Thread Jookia
On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 04:17:49PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 09:25:41PM +, Jookia wrote: > > On systems with little ram (2G in my case) the pixbuf-scale test will either > > freeze the system of cause excessive swapping without the test every > > completing. > > The

Re: [PATCH] gnu: gdk-pixbuf: Disable pixbuf-scale test.

2016-02-06 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 04:17:49PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 09:25:41PM +, Jookia wrote: > > On systems with little ram (2G in my case) the pixbuf-scale test will either > > freeze the system of cause excessive swapping without the test every > > completing. > > The

Re: [PATCH] gnu: gdk-pixbuf: Disable pixbuf-scale test.

2016-02-06 Thread Andreas Enge
On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 09:25:41PM +, Jookia wrote: > On systems with little ram (2G in my case) the pixbuf-scale test will either > freeze the system of cause excessive swapping without the test every > completing. The patch looks good to me, but it would be nice to have another opinion. In

[PATCH] gnu: gdk-pixbuf: Disable pixbuf-scale test.

2016-02-03 Thread Jookia
On systems with little ram (2G in my case) the pixbuf-scale test will either freeze the system of cause excessive swapping without the test every completing. * gnu/packages/gtk.scm (gdk-pixbuf): Don't run 'pixbuf-scale' test. --- gnu/packages/gtk.scm | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff