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bug#23876: [Guix Info][7.1.4] Should remind user to add a swap partition
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#23876: [Guix Info][7.1.4] Should remind user to add a swap partition |
Date: |
Sun, 03 Jul 2016 00:05:49 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Hello!
Eus <address@hidden> skribis:
> If I may suggest, in Guix info that is displayed at console Alt+F2, a user
> should be reminded to add a swap partition.
>
> I forgot to do that first time, and so my "guix system --fallback init
> /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt" got killed by OOM killer after about 10 hours.
>
> Even if a user is not building from source, a swap partition should be handy
> in case the RAM is limited and/or in case hibernating is later desired.
As a consequence of the unavailability of binaries on our machines, you
ended up building webkitgtk and probably other packages. Building
webkitgtk requires a lot of resources, in particular more than 4G or
RAM, so this can easily run out of memory.
Again the goal is to avoid this situation altogether, so I don’t think
we should ask users to systematically add a swap partition before they
start ‘guix system init’.
Thanks for your feedback,
Ludo’.