[Nix-dev] nix out of memory

[Oliver Charles]

To expand on that, my understanding is that whenever you refer to a local
path, that entire path is loaded and held in memory.

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:12 PM Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/29/2016 12:47 PM, stewart mackenzie wrote:
> > What is the reason for dumping a very large path (> 256MiB)?
>
> You probably have
>   src = ./some/local/path;
> so if you have some (unneeded) large files under that path...
>
> --Vladimir
>
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