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[Peter Simons]

Hi Marc,

 > Yes - we should talk about what would be a sensible limit. At least
 > 512MB (for kernel builds or such) are required. So I'd vote for
 > something between 2 and 4GB - because there are some builds running
 > kvm and building nixos inside that.

personally, I would like to configure that limit in configuration.nix
differently on every machine. As a default limit, 4GB sounds reasonable,
though.

One could argue whether some limit should be enabled by default or not?

Take care,
Peter