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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2018-08-03 21:10:03 +0200
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2018-08-03 21:21:16 +0200
commit2825e05d21ecabc8b8524836baf0b9b05da993c6 (patch)
treedbdfb391c835dc4baebee804653bbf7e399b6b27 /doc
parent34c17fdae535d0128d178dde676f56f1bc8439e3 (diff)
Make adding paths via nix-store --serve run in constant memory
It adds a new operation, cmdAddToStoreNar, that does the same thing as the corresponding nix-daemon operation, i.e. call addToStore(). This replaces cmdImportPaths, which has the major issue that it sends the NAR first and the store path second, thus requiring us to store the incoming NAR either in memory or on disk until we decide what to do with it. For example, this reduces the memory usage of $ nix copy --to 'ssh://localhost?remote-store=/tmp/nix' /nix/store/95cwv4q54dc6giaqv6q6p4r02ia2km35-blender-2.79 from 267 MiB to 12 MiB. Probably fixes #1988.
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