I could reproduce the same with a new machine (the same version of nix on ubuntu). Here is the last lines outputted by nix: make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/nix-build-c840mw8wczs625595czibjxq4ngmk2 building install_qcasharedfiles cp -f -r /tmp/nix-build-c840mw8wczs625595czibjxq4ngmk2s6-psi-0.11.drv-0/p cq8zmvd5n22i7k0iacfkwainn-psi-0.11/share/psi// cp: cannot stat `LICENSE': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `DISTRIBUTION': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `LEGAL': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `AUTHORS': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `ChangeLog': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `CHANGES': No such file or directory resize_buffer(aterm.c): cannot allocate string buffer of size -1172903354
Regards, Lluís. 2008/8/26 Lluís Batlle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > I'm using nix 0.12pre12409 in my gentoo system (compiled with bison > 2.3 and flex 2.5.33), and I've seen a very big memory usage in nix-env > after installing the last derivation for psi-0.11. It took 1600MB of > virtual memory, while my laptop, where nix-env run, had only 1GB of > physical RAM. > > I've seen some texts saying that "nix-env -qa '*'" performs the > strongest computation; I don't know how those 1600MB got used. > > Any idea? I was thinking in using nix or nixos in machines with less > memory, I don't know if I those machines should be able to run 1600MB > processes. > > Thank you, > Lluís. >
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