[berlin] guix gc throws: "error: build daemon out of memory"

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Maxim Cournoyer wrote on 22 Aug 2023 04:19
[cuirass] guix gc throws: "error: build daemon out of memory"
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Hi,

Since a few days on Berlin, the following appears in /var/log/mcron.log:

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2023-08-22 04:00:29 28215 /gnu/store/4lmpqf8dnk86avq5xa2l6bznxnmrz27x-guix-1.4.0-7.44bbfc2/bin/guix gc: guix gc: error: build daemon out of memory

It's not just a fluke, according to the kernel's dmesg:

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[7190243.475312] __vm_enough_memory: pid: 28300, comm: guix-daemon, not enough memory for the allocation

Once it appears, it can be triggered simply by running 'guix gc'. The
problem can be worked around by restarting the Guix daemon, with:

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herd restart guix-daemon

Any ideas what could cause such a condition?

The machine hasn't been rebooted in 83 days, perhaps we should start
with that.

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Thanks,
Maxim
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Maxim Cournoyer wrote on 27 Aug 2023 03:36
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retitle 65446 [berlin] guix gc throws: "error: build daemon out of memory"
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 2 Sep 2023 18:37
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severity 65446 important
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 2 Sep 2023 22:33
Re: bug#65446: [berlin] guix gc throws: "error: build daemon out of memory"
(name . Maxim Cournoyer)(address . maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com)
87jzt8e2mv.fsf@gnu.org
Hi!

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:

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> Since a few days on Berlin, the following appears in /var/log/mcron.log:
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> 2023-08-22 04:00:29 28215 /gnu/store/4lmpqf8dnk86avq5xa2l6bznxnmrz27x-guix-1.4.0-7.44bbfc2/bin/guix gc: guix gc: error: build daemon out of memory
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> It's not just a fluke, according to the kernel's dmesg:
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> [7190243.475312] __vm_enough_memory: pid: 28300, comm: guix-daemon, not enough memory for the allocation
>
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> Once it appears, it can be triggered simply by running 'guix gc'. The
> problem can be worked around by restarting the Guix daemon, with:
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> herd restart guix-daemon
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> Any ideas what could cause such a condition?

No idea!

I ran “guix gc -C0” minutes ago, which reproduced the problem;
/var/log/guix-daemon.log reads this:

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2023-09-02 21:40:31 accepted connection from pid 12853, user ludo
2023-09-02 21:40:50 unexpected build daemon error: std::bad_alloc

and the kernel writes what you wrote above:

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Sep 2 21:40:50 localhost vmunix: [8204269.198144] __vm_enough_memory: pid: 12873, comm: guix-daemon, not enough memory for the allocation
Sep 2 21:40:50 localhost vmunix: [8204269.207396] __vm_enough_memory: pid: 12873, comm: guix-daemon, not enough memory for the allocation
Sep 2 21:40:50 localhost vmunix: [8204269.216639] __vm_enough_memory: pid: 12873, comm: guix-daemon, not enough memory for the allocation

My reading of the Linux code is ‘__vm_enough_memory’ is used by Linux
Security Modules (LSM), so perhaps something changed in our kernel
config, be it compile-time or run-time? (Cc: Leo just in case.)

This is with Linux-libre 6.3.4-gnu.

Ludo’.
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