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Re: guix gc: smarter collection & guix.el manual deletion
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: guix gc: smarter collection & guix.el manual deletion |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 01:37:00 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi!
Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:
>> Perhaps you simply don't have enough garbage available for the collector
>> to collect? If you ask for 5 GiB, your system has 3 GiB free, and there
>> is only 1 GiB of garbage, the best the collector can do is collect all
>> the garbage (1 GiB) and leave you with just 4 GiB of free space.
>
> Sorry for the sparse details, I forgot to mention that if I run `guix gc
> -F8GB`,
> then I get 5-6GB back, so it _can_ remove that much garbage indeed! ;)
Note that in the presence of deduplication, the daemon overestimates how
much it’s going to free. So usually it ends up freeing a bit less than
what you asked for.
As a workaround you can run “guix gc -F8G” a couple of times or run
“guix gc -F9G”, something like that. :-)
Ludo’.
- guix gc: smarter collection & guix.el manual deletion, Pierre Neidhardt, 2018/07/26
- Re: guix gc: smarter collection & guix.el manual deletion, Chris Marusich, 2018/07/27
- Re: guix gc: smarter collection & guix.el manual deletion, Pierre Neidhardt, 2018/07/27
- Re: guix gc: smarter collection & guix.el manual deletion, Chris Marusich, 2018/07/28
- Re: guix gc: smarter collection & guix.el manual deletion, Pierre Neidhardt, 2018/07/28
- Re: guix gc: smarter collection & guix.el manual deletion, Chris Marusich, 2018/07/29
- Re: guix gc: smarter collection & guix.el manual deletion, Pierre Neidhardt, 2018/07/29
- Re: guix gc: smarter collection & guix.el manual deletion, Efraim Flashner, 2018/07/29
- Re: guix gc: smarter collection & guix.el manual deletion, Pierre Neidhardt, 2018/07/29
- Re: guix gc: smarter collection & guix.el manual deletion,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- Re: guix gc: smarter collection & guix.el manual deletion, Pierre Neidhardt, 2018/07/30
Re: guix gc: smarter collection & guix.el manual deletion, Chris Marusich, 2018/07/28