Subject: Re: bug#47543: “Repeated allocation of very large block” during‘guix pull’

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2023 12:42:08 +0100

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> skribis:

> While running ‘guix pull’, sometime between the actual ‘git pull’ (via
> Guile-Git) and channel authentication, I saw the dreaded libgc warning:
>
>   Repeated allocation of very large block

[...]

> So it might rather be ‘update-cached-checkout’ that triggers it.

I wonder if this was due to the big checkouts we ended up with so far:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65720

Ludo’.