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bug#48178: Out of memory error when generating a docker-image.
From: |
Leo Famulari |
Subject: |
bug#48178: Out of memory error when generating a docker-image. |
Date: |
Mon, 3 May 2021 12:39:04 -0400 |
On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 12:09:36AM +0200, Roel Janssen wrote:
> Looking at 'guix/scripts/system.scm', it seems that we always pass 256M
> of memory to the VM. After bumping that to 4096M, I was able to
> produce a docker image.
Can you test somes values that are in between? Like, 512M, 1024M, etc,
until we know how much is actually required? If 512M is enough, I don't
see a problem with increasing the hard-coded value to that.
> I'd like to see what we can do here. Assigning too little memory leads
> to problems generating the container, but assigning too much memory wil
> l cause problems for computing machines that don't have much memory to
> spare.
There are some use cases for this code that we'd like to work on
low-resource machines (`guix system vm`), and other use cases (like
building Docker images) that shouldn't be expected to work on machines
with limited RAM.
> Would it be a good idea to make it configurable at run-time?
Yeah, maybe.