У вт, 2026-06-16 у 13:46 +0000, [email protected] пише: > On 2026-06-15 18:35, Sébastien Gendre wrote: > > What is the minimum hardware requirements you would suggest for > > running Guix System on a computer and having the Guix commands > > running in a comfortable amount of time ? (Without using Guix > > deploy and local build of system derivations) > > > > By a "comfortable amount of time", I mean to not have to wait 15 or > > 30 minutes for most of the commands. > > > > I would love to have a server at home that run on Guix System, but > > all my available hardware are old computers with Intel Atom or AMD > > Embedded G series CPU. And when I do my testes, it was very slow. I > > would like to get a new computer for this, but don't know what I > > should get for the hardware. > > I just ran 'time guix pull' on this Core i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 8gb > ram, 1tb ssd, in 7:33. This is an old Lenovo desktop machine. I do > not know how old, I bought it at auction from a municipal agency 3 > years ago. > > It's been a long time, but when I had a rockpro64 running guix pull > took about 3 times as long iirc.
Speaking of aarch64 devices, I timed a 'guix pull' on an A64-OLinuXino- 2Ge16G-IND once. It took 145 minutes. But the time varies. I also timed it when there was "nothing to be done", it took 20 minutes. A system reconfiguration completed in 36 minutes. I am still happy with that for a home server because it requires much less power than my previous one and takes less space. I do not normally wait for the command to complete. Instead, I start it in a GNU screen session and detach from the session. Roman
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