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bug#44053: Poor profile generation performance on spinning disks
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#44053: Poor profile generation performance on spinning disks |
Date: |
Sat, 09 Sep 2023 13:02:11 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Luis,
Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> skribis:
>> Could you time just profile generation itself?
>>
>
>> To do that, you need to find the profile generation and then to rebuild
>> it, along these lines:
>>
>
>> DRV=$(guix gc --derivers $(readlink -f ~/.guix-profile))
>> time guix build --check $DRV
>
> The above results in
>
> real 1m28,841s
> user 0m2,169s
> sys 0m0,450s
Thanks.
It means that profile generation itself (and not just hooks) is slow.
The place to look at is (guix build union). Unfortunately, I suspect
there’s little room for optimization at this stage (see commit
12129998689648923b58c426362a1bc875da75f9 from… 2014).
Fundamentally, ‘union-build’ traverses every input directory, which is
expensive with low-end hard disks. It would still be worth
investigating (for example by strace’ing the ‘union-build’ process) in
case we missed optimizationm opportunities, though.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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