Remco van 't Veer <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > A machine with plenty cores (16 according to nproc) but little RAM > (16Gb) often gets OOM failures when building packages (especially rust > based) because 16 memory hungry compilers are run in parallel. I can > workaround this by passing "-c 4" to guix build but tend to forget only > to find out an hour into a build that it gets killed by OOM. > > Is there a way to make the maximum number of cores for a guix build > permanent by setting some environment variable or maybe > guix-service-type? > > Remco
Hi, Look at "2.3 Invoking 'guix-daemon'", "2.2.1 Build Environment Setup" and guix-configuration in "11.10.1 Base Services" in the manual.
