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

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi Ludo,

On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:42:24 +0100
Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:

> Also, it would be great if you could identify which derivation build
> requires that much memory, if this was happening sequentially.  (I
> suspect “guix-packages.drv” is the one that eats up the most memory.)

How do I do that?

I've attached the process tree, filtered by "grep guix", of the latest such
occurence (if this E-Mail still makes it before I have no memory left :P).

I also have the unfiltered process tree and I didn't invoke "guix gc"--if we
need that.

PROBLEM_TREE_GUIX
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pgpbEAMZFbt47.pgp
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