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Alex Wied 1af5d798a4 libstore/globals.cc: Automatically set cores based on cgroup CPU limit
By default, Nix sets the "cores" setting to the number of CPUs which are
physically present on the machine. If cgroups are used to limit the CPU
and memory consumption of a large Nix build, the OOM killer may be
invoked.

For example, consider a GitLab CI pipeline which builds a large software
package. The GitLab runner spawns a container whose CPU is limited to 4
cores and whose memory is limited to 16 GiB. If the underlying machine
has 64 cores, Nix will invoke the build with -j64. In many cases, that
level of parallelism will invoke the OOM killer and the build will
completely fail.

This change sets the default value of "cores" to be
ceil(cpu_quota / cpu_period), with a fallback to
std:🧵:hardware_concurrency() if cgroups v2 is not detected.
2022-07-19 16:03:58 -04:00
.github update stale bot per RFC 0124 2022-07-10 16:50:49 -07:00
config Run autoupdate 2021-06-01 11:42:38 +02:00
contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
doc/manual Branch 2.10 release notes 2022-07-11 21:10:23 +02:00
m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
maintainers Integrate push-docker.sh into the release script 2022-02-18 13:58:01 +01:00
misc nix-daemon.service: sync LimitNOFILE with the nixos service 2022-05-19 21:16:07 +03:00
mk Fix incremental static builds 2022-06-22 17:53:58 +02:00
perl Remove std::string alias (for real this time) 2022-02-25 16:13:02 +01:00
scripts Fix --no-daemon installation 2022-07-12 16:15:21 +02:00
src libstore/globals.cc: Automatically set cores based on cgroup CPU limit 2022-07-19 16:03:58 -04:00
tests Merge pull request #6784 from tweag/completion-test 2022-07-18 20:32:14 +02:00
.dir-locals.el .dir-locals.el: Set c-block-comment-prefix 2020-07-10 11:21:06 +02:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig 2017-06-05 22:57:28 +01:00
.gitignore Add unit tests for libexpr (#5377) 2022-05-06 18:05:27 +02:00
.version Bump version 2022-05-30 21:11:20 +02:00
boehmgc-coroutine-sp-fallback.diff Fix leaking pthread_attr_t 2021-11-03 22:54:16 +01:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac Embed the sandbox shell into the statically linked 'nix' binary 2022-06-23 04:08:28 +02:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
default.nix Remove url literals 2022-01-24 13:28:21 +01:00
docker.nix Allow specification of extra packages, maxLayers in Docker image 2022-07-01 17:53:14 -04:00
flake.lock curl: patch for netrc regression in Nix 2022-07-14 17:45:02 -05:00
flake.nix curl: patch for netrc regression in Nix 2022-07-14 17:45:02 -05:00
local.mk Remove 'dist' target 2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
Makefile Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-05-25 11:55:13 +00:00
Makefile.config.in Embed the sandbox shell into the statically linked 'nix' binary 2022-06-23 04:08:28 +02:00
precompiled-headers.h Config: Use nlohmann/json 2020-08-20 11:02:16 +02:00
README.md throw freenode down the memory hole 2021-05-27 21:48:39 +02:00
shell.nix Remove url literals 2022-01-24 13:28:21 +01:00

Nix

Open Collective supporters Test

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.

Installation

On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):

$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.

Building And Developing

See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.

Additional Resources

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.