Re: Guix as a non-optional dependency in another project, and Guix resources requirements.

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
> I have a virtual machine that essentially runs an nginx instance and had
> 1GB of memory. This was not enough to do a "guix pull". I asked the people
> who provide the machine to me to ramp up to 2GB, but this was still not
> enough. Now I dare not ask for more, as I already felt ridiculous enough
> asking for 2GB for what essentially amounts to "apt-get update".
> This is not exactly good advertisement for our system...
>
> Andreas

If other processeses do indeed consume much of the 2GB, you could make
Guix pull an older commit for which substitutes are already available:

info "(guix)Channels with Substitutes"

Actually maybe 1GB is already enough then.

Regards,
Florian