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Re: guix gc takes long in "deleting unused links ..."
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Giovanni Biscuolo |
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Re: guix gc takes long in "deleting unused links ..." |
Date: |
Sat, 02 Feb 2019 11:38:13 +0100 |
Hi Caleb,
thank you very much for the technocal details of the garbage collection
process!
Caleb Ristvedt <address@hidden> writes:
> Björn Höfling <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Why does that take soo long?
>
> Warning: technical overview follows.
>
> It takes so long because after the garbage collection pass it then does
> a *full* pass over the /gnu/store/.links directory. Which is huge.
[...]
>> Or better: Is it save here to just hit CTRL-C (and let the daemon work
>> in background, or whatever)?
>
> I expect that CTRL-C at that point would cause the guix process to
> terminate, closing its connection to the daemon. I don't believe the
> daemon uses asynchronous I/O
[...]
IMHO both this questions/anwsers should start a brand new "Guix FAQ"
texinfo document :-)
I'll try to bootstrap one if I can
Thanks!
Giovanni
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Giovanni Biscuolo
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