[Nix-dev] Nix problem

[Eelco Dolstra]

Armijn Hemel wrote:

> Well, if you really intend to run Nix on it and then try installing software
> with it, it might fail. Eelco, please correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't
> there cases where Nix would read in the whole package in RAM (binary
> patching)?

Bsdiff/bspatch are very memory-hungry.  So those should be disabled in a 
memory-constrained environment.

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