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bug#72340: guix should not ask me to report a bug if it fails due to run
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Zack Weinberg |
Subject: |
bug#72340: guix should not ask me to report a bug if it fails due to running out of memory |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Jul 2024 16:02:33 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Cyrus-JMAP/3.11.0-alpha0-582-g5a02f8850-fm-20240719.002-g5a02f885 |
If a guix operation fails due to running out of memory, it's reported
to the user as an internal error, instructing them to report a bug to
bug-guix. For example:
# guix pull
Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at
'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
Building from this channel:
guix https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git 46a64c7
substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
module-import 2KiB 56KiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0%
module-import-compiled 1.3MiB 2.4MiB/s 00:01 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0%
compute-guix-derivation 1KiB 877KiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0%
Computing Guix derivation for 'x86_64-linux'... \
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 8388608 bytes
[previous line repeats 79 more times]
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 69632 bytes
GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 402 MiB. Returning NULL!
Warning: Unwind-only out of memory exception; skipping pre-unwind handler.
guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program
'/gnu/store/6pckga173mjbpfz7a2bl93h4gimd8fp5-compute-guix-derivation'
failed to compute the derivation for Guix (version:
"46a64c7fdd057283063aae6df058579bb07c4b6a"; system: "x86_64-linux";
host version: "e4aabf42b33346849cb565199cfafc49d4f0aeff";
pull-version: 1). Please report the COMPLETE output above by email to
<bug-guix@gnu.org>.
The fact that it ran the computer out of RAM is *not* a bug per se --
perhaps we could talk about reducing "guix pull"'s memory
requirements, but that's a big hairy design challenge probably.
But that means there *is* a bug: the fatal exception handler should
have a dedicated message for out-of-memory conditions, directing the
user to add more swap or something, instead of reporting a bug.
For reference, this is a server with this much RAM as of when I ran
the above command:
# free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 969Mi 229Mi 557Mi 0B 319Mi 739Mi
Swap: 613Mi 39Mi 574Mi
Enabling zswap did not permit a successful "guix pull" but increasing
the amount of available swap space to 2Gi did. (Memory overcommit is
disabled. Peak memory usage, with the increased swap, was roughly
1.5Gi.)
zw
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