bug#63852: closed (‘guix-package-cache.drv’ eats all your memory with ‘guix-cran’)

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with ‘guix-cran’
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regarding ‘guix-package-cache.drv’ eats all your memory with ‘guix-cran’
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> ‘guix-package-cache.drv’ eats all your memory with ‘guix-cran’
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> Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:22:29 +0200
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux)
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> Consider this:
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> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ cat /tmp/cran.scm
> (cons (channel
>        (name 'guix-cran)
>        (url "https://github.com/guix-science/guix-cran.git";))
>       %default-channels)
> $ guix time-machine -C /tmp/cran.scm -- describe
> Updating channel 'guix-cran' from Git repository at 
> 'https://github.com/guix-science/guix-cran.git'...
> Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 
> 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
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> [...]
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> The following derivations will be built:
>   /gnu/store/90qiphp9048zgvi96lj8zqg8zhwi4js0-profile.drv
>   /gnu/store/2lv56bl8ghyf2kvfkwj5iy3mrlfik4la-inferior-script.scm.drv
>   /gnu/store/vnjf8gf6yf5gjm1syvz7yyfn71mmvy27-profile.drv
>   /gnu/store/8x49757i1s0r6igrah8ramn9zc1v577b-guix-69dfdb7bd.drv
>   /gnu/store/ll5x27npc3znyqv0rkjh945x9cr41k9q-guix-command.drv
>   /gnu/store/m03hp1n62bv8gkid53g8igizbw012gai-guix-module-union.drv
>   /gnu/store/pw8k2jwwyj2nwvqjcd1w3xjvz2n5zpbg-guix-69dfdb7bd-modules.drv
>   /gnu/store/a6si5zgzsxyha2466v4q45hqimg31mjg-guix-config-modules.drv
>   /gnu/store/3pm8aivzg3hfv95zlffxjrxvf8hfbg5n-guix-config-source.drv
>   /gnu/store/rffsvls17s21v2h6gw7agah5vczwi3rm-config.scm.drv
>   /gnu/store/v61jlksbgfslh27y8dbaj1jcajxz5c8z-guix-config.drv
>   /gnu/store/z6r6xdcq9dyxlk8ln8cq1ka2gspxp83i-guix-daemon.drv
>   /gnu/store/fshds3i961v1p3x8f7awh55lix0f7vkl-guix-cran.drv
>   /gnu/store/xsnp3znb0h630kipjxd198qfd3jr2ww5-inferior-script.scm.drv
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> building /gnu/store/xsnp3znb0h630kipjxd198qfd3jr2ww5-inferior-script.scm.drv...
> building /gnu/store/rffsvls17s21v2h6gw7agah5vczwi3rm-config.scm.drv...
> building /gnu/store/3pm8aivzg3hfv95zlffxjrxvf8hfbg5n-guix-config-source.drv...
> building /gnu/store/v61jlksbgfslh27y8dbaj1jcajxz5c8z-guix-config.drv...
> building /gnu/store/a6si5zgzsxyha2466v4q45hqimg31mjg-guix-config-modules.drv...
> building 
> /gnu/store/pw8k2jwwyj2nwvqjcd1w3xjvz2n5zpbg-guix-69dfdb7bd-modules.drv...
> building /gnu/store/m03hp1n62bv8gkid53g8igizbw012gai-guix-module-union.drv...
> building /gnu/store/ll5x27npc3znyqv0rkjh945x9cr41k9q-guix-command.drv...
> building /gnu/store/z6r6xdcq9dyxlk8ln8cq1ka2gspxp83i-guix-daemon.drv...
> building /gnu/store/8x49757i1s0r6igrah8ramn9zc1v577b-guix-69dfdb7bd.drv...
> building /gnu/store/fshds3i961v1p3x8f7awh55lix0f7vkl-guix-cran.drv...
> building CA certificate bundle...
> listing Emacs sub-directories...
> building fonts directory...
> building directory of Info manuals...
> building profile with 2 packages...
> building /gnu/store/2lv56bl8ghyf2kvfkwj5iy3mrlfik4la-inferior-script.scm.drv...
> building package cache...
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
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> It goes OK until building 
> /gnu/store/6rfaqfq693vda59a55asc4wjjg52ilns-guix-package-cache.drv, which
> consumes memory until it gets OOM-killed.
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> It used to work fine a few months ago.
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> Ludo’.
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> Subject: 
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> Re: bug#63852: ‘guix-package-cache.drv’ eats all your memory with ‘guix-cran’
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> Date: 
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> Thu, 15 Jun 2023 15:13:37 +0200
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> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
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> > Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
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> >> Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> skribis:
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> >>> It goes OK until building 
> >>> /gnu/store/6rfaqfq693vda59a55asc4wjjg52ilns-guix-package-cache.drv, which
> >>> consumes memory until it gets OOM-killed.
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> >> The culprit is easily found (here on just the 22K packages of ‘guix’, so
> >> less than half of what you get with ‘guix-cran’):
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> > (Beware of “easily” when the guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about.)
> >
> > Turns out the problem is more pedestrian: ‘r-future-tests’ depends on
> > itself.
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> With commit e4259d4e9e3251e4c4b45d1cce4008ac32b504c8, such cycles are
> detected early on.
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> Closing this bug.
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> We should still improve the memory footprint of the assembler though.
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> Ludo’.
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