To expand on that, my understanding is that whenever you refer to a local path, that entire path is loaded and held in memory.
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:12 PM Vladimír Čunát <vcu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/29/2016 12:47 PM, stewart mackenzie wrote: > > What is the reason for dumping a very large path (> 256MiB)? > > You probably have > src = ./some/local/path; > so if you have some (unneeded) large files under that path... > > --Vladimir > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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