| 11 Nov 2025 |
 Daniel Fahey | Hopefully NVIDIA see some disruption and all this gets a bit more accessible for us normal people | 20:30:58 |
 Ari Lotter | that's the dream :) | 20:31:05 |
| Daniel Fahey | And if you want to run Nixpkgs' vLLM on it, your colleagues will experience a slightly better CLI UX, lol | 20:40:40 |
| Ari Lotter | huh the jax checkPhase is sloooooow | 20:47:31 |
| Daniel Fahey | Famously | 20:53:41 |
| Daniel Fahey | Doesn't seem to work on Nixbuild.net either, lol https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/445824 | 20:55:16 |
| Daniel Fahey | Since it seems you're in the mood to watch computer go brrrrr, I use this command to monitor (and record stats) during compiles
nix-shell -p dool --run 'dool -tcms --swap --top-mem --top-cpu --display --output ~/vllm-build-stats.csv 10'
| 20:56:36 |
| Daniel Fahey | * Since it seems you're in the mood to watch computer go brrrrr, I use this command to monitor (and record stats) during compiles
nix-shell -p dool --run 'dool -tcms --swap --top-mem --top-cpu --display --output ~/vllm-build-stats.csv 10'
| 20:56:45 |
| Daniel Fahey | oh and if you're building JAX, that must mean you're not using Flox's new cache?
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-flox-nvidia-opening-up-cuda-redistribution-on-nix/69189
extra-trusted-substituters = https://cache.flox.dev
extra-trusted-public-keys = flox-cache-public-1:7F4OyH7ZCnFhcze3fJdfyXYLQw/aV7GEed86nQ7IsOs=
| 20:58:20 |
| Daniel Fahey | * Oh, forgot, the command you'll want to post to the PR as a comment, use
nixpkgs-review pr 460701 --extra-nixpkgs-config '{ cudaSupport = true; allowUnfree = true;}' --post-result
``` thanks again!
| 20:59:12 |
| Daniel Fahey | * Oh, forgot, the command you'll want to post to the PR as a comment, use
nixpkgs-review pr 460701 --extra-nixpkgs-config '{ cudaSupport = true; allowUnfree = true;}' --post-result
```
thanks again!
| 20:59:23 |
| Daniel Fahey | * Oh, forgot, the command you'll want to post to the PR as a comment, use
nixpkgs-review pr 460701 --extra-nixpkgs-config '{ cudaSupport = true; allowUnfree = true;}' --post-result
thanks again!
| 20:59:34 |
| Ari Lotter | oh shoot, seems i'm not | 21:09:03 |
| Ari Lotter | gonna restart | 21:09:10 |
| Ari Lotter | lol | 21:09:11 |
| Daniel Fahey | Saves A LOT of time, absolute game changer | 21:09:28 |
| Ari Lotter | here we go again :) | 21:11:13 |
| Ari Lotter | nix-shell -p --run over nix run -- ? :p | 21:12:32 |
