From 1f8c96054ee971397ffd4727930a9252552ac9bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antoine Eiche Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 18:56:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] eval-release.sh: increase nix-instantiate heap size to 2GB Otherwise, nix-instantiate fails with Too many heap sections: Increase MAXHINCR or MAX_HEAP_SECTS --- maintainers/scripts/eval-release.sh | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/eval-release.sh b/maintainers/scripts/eval-release.sh index 9ef531319e4daf..e0dfaf1de74c1c 100755 --- a/maintainers/scripts/eval-release.sh +++ b/maintainers/scripts/eval-release.sh @@ -4,4 +4,8 @@ if [[ -z "$VERBOSE" ]]; then echo "You may set VERBOSE=1 to see debug output or to any other non-empty string to make this script completely silent" fi unset HOME NIXPKGS_CONFIG # Force empty config + +# With the default heap size (380MB), nix-instantiate fails: +# Too many heap sections: Increase MAXHINCR or MAX_HEAP_SECTS +export GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE=${GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE:-2000000000} # 2GB nix-instantiate --strict --eval-only --xml --show-trace "$(dirname "$0")"/eval-release.nix 2>&1 > /dev/null