On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 13:35:22 +0100 Aljosha Papsch wrote: > On 24.10.2015 22:35, Efraim Flashner wrote: > > the error message is near the end of the log: > > ../../gcc-4.9.3/gcc/tree-ssa-ccp.c:2751:1: fatal error: error writing > > to /tmp/nix-build-gcc-4.9.3.drv-0/cc5mntgw.s: No space left on device > > } I assume /tmp is part of / on your system. How much free space do > > you have there? That's where the building is done. > > That was the nudge in the right direction. I didn't think of /tmp being > mounted as tmpfs, which lead to wrong assumption that guix had 85GB > space left. /tmp is mounted with default options, which means size is > half the RAM (2GB). To increase tmpfs size, I remounted /tmp with > options "size=20G". These 20GB are backed by 50GB swap, which I > increased by reusing an old partition of another system as swap. > > Now building zile suceeds and guix installed it successfully. I guess > the bug can be closed now as it appears to be a sole issue of memory > resources on this machine. Utilizing gnuplot again, the peak of RAM > usage is at approx. 1.8GB, while swap usage is at approx. 1.3GB. The > 20GB tmpfs and 50GB swap is a bit much and I'll reduce it to 3GB tmpfs > and 6GB swap. I will see if this is sufficient in daily guix usage. > > Aljosha Glad to hear it worked out :) my /tmp is a 6GB tmpfs, because for a while I was building and building texlive, and after whatever else was in /tmp it needed almost 5GB. But that should be the biggest package. -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted