Re: [Nix-dev] Why Nix-0.16 so hungry on ressources (mem + cpu) ?

2011-11-07 Thread Vladimír Čunát
I'm sorry I reply so late. Thanks, Eelco, for fixing the bug, the number seemed suspicious. Nevertheless, evaluating by package name is still quite memory-hungry - you had around 350MB, my htop reports around 12% of 4GB on evaluating nix-env -qas --description \* which I use to cache the names.

Re: [Nix-dev] Why Nix-0.16 so hungry on ressources (mem + cpu) ?

2011-10-31 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 10/30/2011 10:55 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: On the sheevaplug, 512MB of physical RAM, and the same amount of swap: 7.88user 0.71system 0:09.86elapsed 87%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 617568maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (4major+41841minor)pagefaults 0swaps I think Eelco thinks

Re: [Nix-dev] Why Nix-0.16 so hungry on ressources (mem + cpu) ?

2011-10-31 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 05:45:37PM +0100, Eelco Dolstra wrote: On 10/30/2011 10:55 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: On the sheevaplug, 512MB of physical RAM, and the same amount of swap: 7.88user 0.71system 0:09.86elapsed 87%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 617568maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs

Re: [Nix-dev] Why Nix-0.16 so hungry on ressources (mem + cpu) ?

2011-10-27 Thread Paul Dufresne
Was using Nix-0.16. With it, I was able to: sudo nix-install-package --non-interactive --url http://hydra.nixos.org/build/1463174/nix/pkg/nix-1.0pre29920-i686-linux.nixpkg which is trunk nix. Or at least was not long ago. It also shows the 56k connection was not so bad: did download perl-5.10.1,

Re: [Nix-dev] Why Nix-0.16 so hungry on ressources (mem + cpu) ?

2011-10-26 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 05:47:49PM -0400, Paul Dufresne wrote: Having problems downloading the MANIFEST.bz2 file on nixpkgs-unstable with my 56k modem (I always get curl error 18, between 0% and 50% of the 19Mb file), I downloaded on a computer with high-speed Internet, along the