Building icecat does not always respect the number of cores

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  • divoplade
  • Jonathan Brielmaier
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divoplade wrote on 23 Oct 2020 21:58
(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
ea9d404683253bf92e30ebc65af4f354fb52818a.camel@divoplade.fr
Dear guix,

I have configured the guix daemon to use 1 core by default, so that
unattended upgrades and CI jobs will not fill my system memory and
crush my computer.

However, I noticed that in a precise time frame of compiling icecat,
the number of cores were not respected and all my cores were compiling.
The processes were named rustc, but it went fast so I could not gather
more info.

This is not really annoying, because rust compilation does not take
that much memory, but I still have the feeling that it is a bug.

Best regards,

divoplade
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Jonathan Brielmaier wrote on 4 Dec 2020 20:59
(address . 44184@debbugs.gnu.org)
474a4a0c-d995-b8b4-006b-8f5bd0f1e666@web.de
I can confirm that bug on current Guix system. I also have the feeling
that it's not only during rustc parts, I see it while having gcc
compiling C++ stuff as well...
?