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[bug#68242,1/5] utils: Lower xz compression memory usage limit to 20%.

Message ID 148980a1febb6921bd1b02da6c6d5b9defecd50a.1704386901.git.maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com
State New
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Series [bug#68242,1/5] utils: Lower xz compression memory usage limit to 20%. | expand

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Maxim Cournoyer Jan. 4, 2024, 4:48 p.m. UTC 
There were sometimes out of memory errors on the Berlin build farm, especially
for i686 or arm machines having less memory.

* guix/build/utils.scm (%xz-parallel-args): Reduce --memlimit value from 50%
to 20%.

Change-Id: If848bed92ef4c42d11a96057e59ee51a019d0573
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 guix/build/utils.scm | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/guix/build/utils.scm b/guix/build/utils.scm
index 8e630ad586..e87066cc02 100644
--- a/guix/build/utils.scm
+++ b/guix/build/utils.scm
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@  (define (tarball? file-name)
 (define (%xz-parallel-args)
   "The xz arguments required to enable bit-reproducible, multi-threaded
 compression."
-  (list "--memlimit=50%"
+  (list "--memlimit=20%"
         (format #f "--threads=~a" (max 2 (parallel-job-count)))))