bug#52510: closed (guix install - profile build takes forever)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: guix install - profile build takes forever Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 14:03:51 +0100

I use guix 1.3, and a simple guix install takes forever. It hangs 2-10 minutes in the profile build phase.

I have a NVME drive, and see 10-80 MB/sec IO Write in this timeframe.

In the terminal I see: "building profile with 159 packages..."

Then I have to wait 5 minutes. 

I assume it hard-linking of packages because  I use ext4.

this behavior is machine specific. On the machines that are affected it occurs pretty consistent. But there are exceptions; when I install

a very small new package, the build time sometimes is in the 30 second range. But typically it takes 5 minutes.

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> On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 04:40:33PM +0100, Florian Hoertlehner wrote:
> > With the merge of core-update-frozen this issue went away. :-)
> > I hope it does not reappear.
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> Great! I am closing this bug. Please let us know if it happens again.
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