The old GRUB menu builder script is quite slow, typically taking
several seconds. This is a real annoyance since it's run every time
you switch to a new configuration. Therefore this patch replaces the
Bash script with a much faster Perl script. In a VirtualBox test, the
execution time went from 2.7s to 0.1s. The Perl version is also more
correct because it uses XML to get the GRUB configuration (through
builtins.toXML), so there are no shell escaping issues.
The new script currently lacks support for subconfigurations defined
through "nesting.children".
* Change the name of the top-level derivation from "system" to
"nixos-<version>".
* Show the NixOS version in the GRUB boot menu instead of the kernel
version.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=33785
slow: calling basename in a loop somewhere has a noticable impact on
performance. We really shouldn't use bash scripts.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=33242
longer compares the current configuration to the previous
configuration, but instead compares the current Upstart state to the
intended state. Thus, if the switch script is interrupted, running
nixos-rebuild again will resume starting/stopping Upstart jobs where
the previous run left off.
We determine if an Upstart job has changed by having the pre-start
script of each Upstart job put a symlink to its .conf file in
/var/run/upstart-jobs. So if this symlink differs from the target
of /etc/init/<job>.conf, then the job has changed. This also
prevents multiple restarts of dependent jobs. E.g., if job B has
"start on started A" and "stop on stopping A", then restarting A
will cause B to be restarted, so B shouldn't B restarted a second
time.
We only start jobs that are not running if 1) they're tasks that
have been previously run (like mountall); or 2) they're jobs that
have a "start on" condition. This seems a reasonable heuristic.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=33222
Note: This feature is INCOMPLETE. Moreover, when runEfibootmgr is true it will
MODIFY NVRAM and, on Apple systems, possibly brick your firmware. PLEASE be
careful while further testing is performed
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=33047
After the change from revision 30103, nixos-rebuild suddenly consumed
freaky amounts of memory. I had to abort the process after it had
allocated well in excess of 30GB(!) of RAM. I'm not sure what is causing
this behavior, but undoing that assignment fixes the problem. The other
two commits needed to be revoked, too, because they depend on 30103.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=30127
then every unshare(CLONE_NEWNS) system call causes a new entry to be
created in /dev/cgroup/<pid>, which is not removed automatically.
This can cause subsequent calls to unshare() to fail if the PID has
wrapped around. Worse, a large number of entries in /dev/cgroup
causes a very substantial system slowdown: doing 10,000
fork()/unshare(CLONE_NEWNS)/exit() calls took 21s without the "ns"
subsystem, but 2m43s with it, and the system slows down permanently
until the entries in /dev/cgroup are removed (going to a load of > 6
on my laptop).
This is particularly important for Nix because its chroot feature
uses unshare(CLONE_NEWNS). (http://yellowgrass.org/issue/Nix/219)
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=27216
in /etc/xen/auto at boot time, to save all running domains during
shutdown, and to restore all saved domains at boot time.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=24121
init script. This removes the need for the `systemConfig' boot
parameter; `init=<stage-2-init>' is enough. However, the GRUB menu
builder still needs to add `systemConfig' to the kernel command line
for compatibility with old configurations.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=23775
* Moved some scriptlets to the appropriate modules.
* Put the scriptlet that sets the default path at the start, since it
never makes sense not to have it there. It no longer needs to be
declared as a dependency.
* If a scriptlet has no dependencies, it can be denoted as a plain
string (i.e., `noDepEntry' is not needed anymore).
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=23762
like `build-vm', but boots using the regular boot loader (i.e. GRUB
1 or 2) rather than booting directly from the kernel/initrd. Thus
it allows testing of GRUB.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=23747
build hook uses this directory to store temporary GC roots. (It
creates it if it doesn't exist, but it's better to do it here as
well to ensure the right ownership and permissions.)
* Clear /nix/var/nix/gcroots/tmp and /nix/var/nix/temproots at boot
time.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=23417
we want to generate the GRUB menu without actually installing GRUB
(because Amazon supplies its own pv-grub), and each menu entry
requires "root (hd0)". For the first, allow boot.loader.grub.device
to be set to "nodev" to indicate that the GRUB menu should be
generated without installing GRUB. For the second, add an option
boot.loader.grub.extraPerEntryConfig to allow commands to be added
to each GRUB menu entry (in this case, "root (hd0)").
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=22712
screws up the X server (CPU usage goes to 100%, switching virtual
consoles no longer works, etc.). TODO: we need some generic way to
mark jobs that shouldn't be started automatically.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=22608
shutdown. (Portmap and statd are needed during shutdown to unmount
NFS volumes but have open files in /var/run.)
* In the shutdown job, don't kill PIDs belonging to Upstart jobs that
are still running. If they don't stop on the "starting shutdown"
event, then they're needed during shutdown (such as portmap and
statd).
* NFS test: test whether the shutdown quickly unmounts NFS volumes
(i.e. whether portmap and statd are still running).
svn path=/nixos/branches/boot-order/; revision=22204
