Subject: Re: [bug#58357] [Patch staging ] doc add a recommended system in 'Hardware Considerations'

From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 17:26:12 +0100

[email-masked] writes:
> I can submit a patch in the guix manual to recommend hardware with at least 
> 1 or 2GB.  Which is better? 1 or 2?

Come to think of it, there recently was a commit about Guix System (not
about but because of the Guix package manager):

commit 98a8b48a69b8208475c9a1e40d09517f8643b8cb
Author: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date:   Thu Sep 1 14:45:45 2022 +0200

    doc: Suggest more RAM for "Running Guix in a VM".
    
    Fixes <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/57474>.
    Reported by Michael F. Lamb <[email-masked]>.
    
    Running 'guix pull' to target current revisions would lead to memory
    exhaustion.  Bumping the memory size works around that.
    
    * doc/guix.texi (Running Guix in a VM): Change "-m 1024" to "-m 2048".

However, to quote Ludo from that bug#57474:
> It looks like the memory requirements to build the latest revisions of
>  Guix have increased (and this is a bit ridiculous).

Nevertheless the docs should mention 2GB, I guess.

Regards,
Florian