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.
