Hi,

For context, see [1].

On Thu, 01 Apr 2021 at 16:00, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote:

> While running ‘guix pull’, sometime between the actual ‘git pull’ (via
> Guile-Git) and channel authentication, I saw the dreaded libgc warning:
>
>   Repeated allocation of very large block
>
> I forgot to capture the command output though, and it does not seem to
> be reproducible.  (This is with a recent Guix,
> ca. 9098745b181b3022587a35afd255f7ff1d41ac86.)
>
> Running the command below from a Guix checkout, which authenticates 15+K
> commits, isn’t enough to trigger it:
>
>   guix git authenticate --cache-key=whatever \
>     "9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad" \
>     "BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8 0D1D E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A 54FA"
>
> So it might rather be ‘update-cached-checkout’ that triggers it.
>
> If you experience it, please share the command line and command output!

It’s sometime that I’ve not hit it myself.  You?

What could be the next action?

Cheers,
simon

1: bug#47543: “Repeated allocation of very large block” during ‘guix pull’
Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]>
Thu, 01 Apr 2021 16:00:06 +0200
id:[email protected]
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47543
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/msgid/[email protected]
https://yhetil.org/guix/[email protected]



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