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Re: [v2 1/1] doc: Show how to boot result of 'vm-image'.
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [v2 1/1] doc: Show how to boot result of 'vm-image'. |
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Tue, 26 Jan 2016 22:11:07 +0100 |
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Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:08:09AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
[...]
>> “Defaults to address@hidden, which may be insufficient for some
>> operations.” (It’s not the daemon specifically, it’s mostly if you want
>> to run X + Xfce, for instance. The former ‘guix substitute’ used to
>> take quite a lot of memory, but I think that’s no longer the case since
>> we switched to HTTP pipelining.)
>
> I hit this limit while using the "bare-bones" configuration template.
> The system would boot with 128 MiB of RAM but any operations using the
> daemon would fail.
Oh OK. Well the thing is still using too much memory then (I suspect
it’s ‘guix substitute’ that’s at fault, not the C++ part of the daemon.)
> Also, I looked into how QEMU interprets "megabyte" et al. From the QEMU
> source file "include/qemu-common.h":
> #define M_BYTE (1ULL << 20)
>
> So, I replaced "megabyte" with "mebibyte" in this paragraph.
Perfect. :-)
Thanks,
Ludo’.