# This is a "service unit file" for the systemd init system to launch # 'guix-daemon'. Drop it in /etc/systemd/system or similar to have # 'guix-daemon' automatically started. [Unit] Description=Build daemon for GNU Guix [Service] ExecStart=@localstatedir@/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix-daemon \ --build-users-group=guixbuild --discover=no \ --substitute-urls='@GUIX_SUBSTITUTE_URLS@' Environment='GUIX_LOCPATH=@localstatedir@/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/lib/locale' LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 StandardOutput=journal StandardError=journal # Work around a nasty systemd ‘feature’ that kills the entire process tree # (including the daemon!) if any child, such as cc1plus, runs out of memory. OOMPolicy=continue # Despite the name, this is rate-limited: a broken daemon will eventually fail. Restart=always # See <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-04/msg00608.html>. # Some package builds (for example, go@1.8.1) may require even more than # 1024 tasks. TasksMax=8192 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target