A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community
https://lix.systems
Alois Wohlschlager
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When the maximum memory size is chosen too large (relative to the free memory
usage), so that the evaluation workers don't fit into the free memory, they
will start being swapped out. Further increase in memory usage will not be
reflected in the RSS, so they will not exit, and instead fill up all swap too
until the system runs out of memory.
The BDW-GC keeps track of its heap size, including any parts of it that may be
swapped out. For this reason it does not suffer from a similar problem. While
not all memory usage by the evaluation worker is accounted for by the GC, a
simple affine model for the overhead works reasonably well in practice. The
specific parameter values were determined using nixpkgs evaluation, and appear
to work quite well also for somewhat different workloads (like the `hydraJobs`
of Lix, which include a bunch of NixOS system configurations). So this is what
gets used.
When Lix is configured without the BDW-GC, of course this approach cannot be
used. In this case the old strategy is retained.
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Lix
Lix is an implementation of Nix, a powerful package management system for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible.
Read more about us at https://lix.systems.
Installation
On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Lix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):
$ curl -sSf -L https://install.lix.systems/lix | sh -s -- install
For systems that already have a Nix implementation installed, such as NixOS systems, read our install page
Building And Developing
See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to set up a development environment and build Lix from source.
Additional Resources
- The Lix reference manual:
- Our wiki
- Matrix - #space:lix.systems
License
Lix is released under LGPL-2.1-or-later.