bug#38167: closed (guix pull takes over 8 GiB of memory to finish if there are no substitutes)

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if there are no substitutes
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #38167,
regarding guix pull takes over 8 GiB of memory to finish if there are no 
substitutes
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: guix pull takes over 8 GiB of memory to finish if there are no substitutes Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:06:35 +0100

Hi,

guix pull takes over 8 GiB of memory to finish if there are no substitutes.

My laptop only takes max 8 GiB of RAM.  I've set up swap, but that kind of
memory usage still seems ridiculous.

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> Hello,
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> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:
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> > Hi Ludo,
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> > okay, I've now (permanently) unset GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH and killed the 
> > problematic "guix pull" process.
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> > I run "guix pull" regularily.  Let's see what happens...
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> The 40 weeks of time that have passed since suggest the problem is now
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> Closing, but feel free to reopen if the problem persists with
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> Thanks,
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