bug#53506: guix-packages-base.drv leads to segfault on i686-linux

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> ‘guix-packages-base.drv’ fails to build due to a Guile segfault (!):
>>
>> [653/656] compiling...        99.1% of 328 files[654/656] compiling...       
>>  99.4% of 328 files[655/656] compiling...        99.7% of 328 filesGC 
>> Warning: Failed to expand heap by 8388608 bytes
>> GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 8388608 bytes
>> GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 8388608 bytes
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 8388608 bytes
>> GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 8388608 bytes
>> builder for 
>> `/gnu/store/cnrmdbcyy8r9bs2gl2kgpnyplivrzf5c-guix-packages-base.drv' failed 
>> due to signal 11 (Segmentation fault)
>> @ build-failed 
>> /gnu/store/cnrmdbcyy8r9bs2gl2kgpnyplivrzf5c-guix-packages-base.drv - 1 
>> builder for 
>> `/gnu/store/cnrmdbcyy8r9bs2gl2kgpnyplivrzf5c-guix-packages-base.drv' failed 
>> due to signal 11 (Segmentation fault)
>
> On closer inspection, this is caused by OOM, with Guile peaking at 2.8G
> resident (!) at that point, more than on x86_64.

An update: with changes made in Guile “main” over the last couple of
weeks, memory consumption is 20% lower and compilation is 20% faster
compared to 3.0.7 (on x86_64):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ ./pre-inst-env time -f '%U seconds\n%M KiB' guile -c '(use-modules (system 
base compile)) (compile-file "gnu/packages/crates-io.scm" #:optimization-level 
1)'
53.84 seconds
795972 KiB
$ ./pre-inst-env time -f '%U seconds\n%M KiB' /data/src/guile-3.0/meta/guile -c 
'(use-modules (system base compile)) (compile-file "gnu/packages/crates-io.scm" 
#:optimization-level 1 #:opts (list #:inlinable-exports? #f 
#:resolve-free-vars? #f))'
43.00 seconds
618724 KiB
$
$ guile --version
guile (GNU Guile) 3.0.7
Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

License LGPLv3+: GNU LGPL 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
$ (cd /data/src/guile-3.0; git log | head -1)
commit 2aed3c117c2d667ecca1e38a016f2cb4b524ab50
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

To be continued…

Ludo’.